we begin in uvalde, texas, where a long awaited report into a deadly school shooting has been highly critical of the police. it found, what they describe, as a cascading failures of leadership, decision making, tactics, policy and training, when the gunman burst into robb elementary school in 2022 hundreds of police officers rushed to the scene but it took more than an hour for them to confront him. in that time, the gunman murdered i9 students and two teachers. that delay sparked outrage among the victims families and across the us more widely, and it prompted the us department ofjustice to investigate, producing today s report that runs 600 pages long. the us attorney general merrick garland visited families in uvalde, and he called the police he said the victims deserved better. in the hours and days after, it was a failure that should not have happened. we was a failure that should not have happened. have happened. we hope to honour the have happened. we hope to