When Pat led the raid on Flattop's apartment to rescue Dick Tracy, he assigned only one officer to guard the fire escape. Flattop killed that officer while fleeing and subsequently killed two more people before being arrested. Pat also mistakenly gave Flattop's gun to Vitamin Flintheart, who used it to accidentally wound a bartender. In real life, these errors in judgement would presumably have resulted in Pat being brought before a Police Review Board, most likely costing him his career.