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Some stories stop you in your tracks. This is one of them. In this week’s episode of Badges & Breakthroughs, I sit down with Lieutenant Laura Turner, a law enforcement leader who’s faced the kind of betrayal most of us couldn’t even imagine — one that came from inside the uniform. When another officer she trusted betrayed that trust in the most horrifying way, Laura’s entire world shifted. What makes her story even more powerful is what came next: she stayed in the profession