<p>Ex-Virginia Beach SWAT Officer Laura Hanson joins us for a candid conversation about the traumatic experience of entering Building 2 at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center during the May 2019 mass shooting. She discusses her new book "Why I Went In" and the need for the  destigmatization of mental health counseling in the law enforcement community.</p>

Ex-Virginia Beach SWAT Officer Laura Hanson joins us for a candid conversation about the traumatic experience of entering Building 2 at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center during the May 2019 mass shooting. She discusses her new book "Why I Went In" and the need for the destigmatization of mental health counseling in the law enforcement community.

<p>Ex-Virginia Beach SWAT Officer Laura Hanson joins us for a candid conversation about the traumatic experience of entering Building 2 at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center during the May 2019 mass shooting. She discusses her new book "Why I Went In" and the need for the&nbsp; destigmatization of mental health counseling in the law enforcement community.</p>

S.3 Ep.3: Ex-SWAT Officer Laura Hanson (Why I Went In)

Listen up.  Are you interested in criminal justice? Are you a law student? Do you want to learn the real deal about how the criminal legal system works?  Criminal defense attorneys Bassel Khalaf and Taite Westendorf don't talk boring legal jargon like typical lawyers. In Season 1 of their podcast, they give you the straight talk on how the system really works by tackling topics like racism, guns, DUI cases, public defenders, bad witness identifications, shady police practices, and much more. Along the way, they’ll dissect their own cases, spotlight their wildest experiences, and talk to some of the most prominent attorneys, journalists, and politicians in the area.  By the end, they’ll blast into space to be immortalized for eternity as the Keanu and Swayze of the Virginia criminal justice world. Seriously.

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Listen up. Are you interested in criminal justice? Are you a law student? Do you want to learn the real deal about how the criminal legal system works? Criminal defense attorneys Bassel Khalaf and Taite Westendorf don't talk boring legal jargon like typical lawyers. In Season 1 of their podcast, they give you the straight talk on how the system really works by tackling topics like racism, guns, DUI cases, public defenders, bad witness identifications, shady police practices, and much more. Along the way, they’ll dissect their own cases, spotlight their wildest experiences, and talk to some of the most prominent attorneys, journalists, and politicians in the area. By the end, they’ll blast into space to be immortalized for eternity as the Keanu and Swayze of the Virginia criminal justice world. Seriously.

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S.3 Ep.3: Ex-SWAT Officer Laura Hanson (Why I Went In)