Behind the headlines are ordinary people whose weaknesses collide with extraordinary access. Levita Almuete Ferrer did not storm a building or threaten anyone with violence; she simply exploited the confidence others placed in her. Every forged check, every manipulated record, slipped through because coworkers trusted both the system’s controls and the familiar face using them. Her addiction turned that trust into a weapon, exposing how easily human vulnerability can bypass layers of policy, software, and protocol.
By contrast, the man with the bat in Newark chose chaos in the open, and the response was immediate and decisive. That contrast is the warning. We are good at reacting to what we can see, to the loud, obvious threat. We are far less prepared for the colleague in crisis, the quiet compromise, the insider who knows exactly which rules to bend and when no one is really looking.
