Over the many years, I have come to expect the criminal element to hide drugs, contraband, blades, handcuff keys, nail files, cellphones, liquid explosives, thumb drives, bullets, and, yes, guns in every nook and cranny of their bodies. Every time I think about Officer Melissa Jayne Schmidt of the Minneapolis Police Department, I wish she would have had some sort of portable scanner back on August 1st, 2002, but she and her backup officer didn’t. The rest is a tragic asterisk in law enforcement history. And as do so many incidents where police officers tried to deal with the nuts and berries in the passing parade, questions remain, too. Continue reading Podcast: How a Concealed Weapon in a Bathroom Led to Melissa Schmidt’s Death →