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     Thanks for taking a look at my first comic for my series Patrol! It's something I’ve had sitting in the back of my head for awhile and now while I’m in a bit of a transitional period of my career figured it would be a decent time to put pen to paper as it were.
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     This particular incident was related to something that actually happened in my career to myself and one of my partners Genny (Yes it's spelled correctly). I had to take a few liberties with the introduction because looking back on it I genuinely do not remember what I was doing before I got called to the scene. I was stuck on some other call when my coworkers were conducting a bust on a drug house where the subjects were also involved in an armed robbery. They’d ended up breaching the door and had 3 people inside the house.

I remember clearing from whatever I was doing because my buddies needed some help securing the building. Initially it wasn’t for another perp but for more drugs suspected to be in the house from what I recall. I didn’t mind helping. I remember thinking to myself I’d have loved to be there for the breach. I arrive and most of my platoon is on scene along with our detectives and we get to work.

We got up to the second floor of the building and we talked a bit about what went down and the apprehensions made. Pretty casually I asked how many people they had in custody and who was at large. They mentioned they had the 2 perps in custody along with several weapons they had on scene (a couple rifles and pistols) but the third bounced on them during the apprehension. Initially it was just my buds Genny and Saph there.

Now I’m confident in my friends abilities as police officers. They are the most dependable people I know and I trust them implicitly to watch my back. However, knowing the difference fresh eyes can be on a scene, and considering the stress chasing a couple armed drug fiends through a house puts on a person I start bouncing ideas off my buddy. I remember clearly asking him “Did you guys check the attic?”

There was a pause. I knew the answer before it was even said. Immediately we both start looking up at the ceiling. I swear my heart leapt into my throat. On the attic access board there was at least one complete handprint and a couple smudges where you can tell it was pushed up.

Man fuck.

Well me and Genny being people of action elected to go up and over to make our apprehension. It was pretty tense. Not only were we going up into a dark attic but we’d be pretty well caught in a fatal funnel as we both made it through the hole. Guns at the ready we pull down the hatch. Our guy wasn’t sitting on the hole. We take a breath and start heading up.

Genny took the lead and I brought up the rear. Gunbarrel first Genny scrambles through the hole into the attic as quickly as he can. I follow behind my gun at the ready. The scene was as follows. The attic was dark with no lights. As we took our first steps out from the hole we realized there was no plywood flooring to stand on, just the exposed structural beams. So here we were. In a dark attic. Standing on 1 inch wide wooden beams approximately 12 inches apart with a potentially armed and dangerous suspect who knows where we are.

Man. Fuck.

Thankfully the ceiling wasn’t that high. Unfortunately it had nails in it which Genny found out the hard way. As he was navigating he moved his head around a beam and when he came back up he ended up catching a nail in the forehead. Not bad enough to cause serious harm but now on top of everything else he was bleeding into his eye.

    We were able to have a gun in one hand, and flashlights in the other. Using our flashlight hands we could keep our balance with them by planting them on the boards framing the roof as we slowly made our way through the attic announcing “Police, come out!”

To our left by the AC unit we could hear the sounds of shuffling and Genny turned towards it. From behind the AC unit he could see a small backpack poking out. We both turn guns at the ready and command the dude to come out with his hands up. I swear he couldn’t come out fast enough. This man literally launched himself up and over the AC unit hands out and nearly tumbled through the ceiling.

We rushed over to him as quickly as we could, put him in cuffs, found more drugs in his bag, and thankfully no gun. It was an act of choreography getting this man down from the attic in custody but get him down we did. Noone was hurt. All's well that ends well.
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Thanks again for taking the time to look at my comic and extra thanks if you made it this far. It was fun looking back on this with my buddies who were involved and reminisce. I’ve tried to make sure all the details here are accurate without giving away too much. The case is over and done with so the proceedings are publicly accessible but a police report, this is not. Simply my own musings I like to look back on while throwing a couple beers back with the boys at Hooters or wherever else we go that has cheap beer and wings.

I don’t entirely have a plan for this series other than I’d like to work on it. It's a bit of a passion project so I’ll definitely continue to put stuff out here. I just can’t guarantee something like an upload schedule considering I am still employed. On one hand it's nice. This can remain a hobby and something I enjoy without the need to focus on monetizing what I make. On the other hand, I really don’t have as much time to work on it as I’d like. I guess we’ll see.

In any case I hope you guys enjoyed c: I know I had fun drawing this especially with my totally not obvious references to certain popular anime.

Oh and to the boys. Prove they weren’t there. If you know you know.

Description

Page 2 of 2

     Thanks for taking a look at my first comic for my series Patrol! It's something I’ve had sitting in the back of my head for awhile and now while I’m in a bit of a transitional period of my career figured it would be a decent time to put pen to paper as it were.
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     This particular incident was related to something that actually happened in my career to myself and one of my partners Genny (Yes it's spelled correctly). I had to take a few liberties with the introduction because looking back on it I genuinely do not remember what I was doing before I got called to the scene. I was stuck on some other call when my coworkers were conducting a bust on a drug house where the subjects were also involved in an armed robbery. They’d ended up breaching the door and had 3 people inside the house.

I remember clearing from whatever I was doing because my buddies needed some help securing the building. Initially it wasn’t for another perp but for more drugs suspected to be in the house from what I recall. I didn’t mind helping. I remember thinking to myself I’d have loved to be there for the breach. I arrive and most of my platoon is on scene along with our detectives and we get to work.

We got up to the second floor of the building and we talked a bit about what went down and the apprehensions made. Pretty casually I asked how many people they had in custody and who was at large. They mentioned they had the 2 perps in custody along with several weapons they had on scene (a couple rifles and pistols) but the third bounced on them during the apprehension. Initially it was just my buds Genny and Saph there.

Now I’m confident in my friends abilities as police officers. They are the most dependable people I know and I trust them implicitly to watch my back. However, knowing the difference fresh eyes can be on a scene, and considering the stress chasing a couple armed drug fiends through a house puts on a person I start bouncing ideas off my buddy. I remember clearly asking him “Did you guys check the attic?”

There was a pause. I knew the answer before it was even said. Immediately we both start looking up at the ceiling. I swear my heart leapt into my throat. On the attic access board there was at least one complete handprint and a couple smudges where you can tell it was pushed up.

Man fuck.

Well me and Genny being people of action elected to go up and over to make our apprehension. It was pretty tense. Not only were we going up into a dark attic but we’d be pretty well caught in a fatal funnel as we both made it through the hole. Guns at the ready we pull down the hatch. Our guy wasn’t sitting on the hole. We take a breath and start heading up.

Genny took the lead and I brought up the rear. Gunbarrel first Genny scrambles through the hole into the attic as quickly as he can. I follow behind my gun at the ready. The scene was as follows. The attic was dark with no lights. As we took our first steps out from the hole we realized there was no plywood flooring to stand on, just the exposed structural beams. So here we were. In a dark attic. Standing on 1 inch wide wooden beams approximately 12 inches apart with a potentially armed and dangerous suspect who knows where we are.

Man. Fuck.

Thankfully the ceiling wasn’t that high. Unfortunately it had nails in it which Genny found out the hard way. As he was navigating he moved his head around a beam and when he came back up he ended up catching a nail in the forehead. Not bad enough to cause serious harm but now on top of everything else he was bleeding into his eye.

    We were able to have a gun in one hand, and flashlights in the other. Using our flashlight hands we could keep our balance with them by planting them on the boards framing the roof as we slowly made our way through the attic announcing “Police, come out!”

To our left by the AC unit we could hear the sounds of shuffling and Genny turned towards it. From behind the AC unit he could see a small backpack poking out. We both turn guns at the ready and command the dude to come out with his hands up. I swear he couldn’t come out fast enough. This man literally launched himself up and over the AC unit hands out and nearly tumbled through the ceiling.

We rushed over to him as quickly as we could, put him in cuffs, found more drugs in his bag, and thankfully no gun. It was an act of choreography getting this man down from the attic in custody but get him down we did. Noone was hurt. All's well that ends well.
____________________________________________________

Thanks again for taking the time to look at my comic and extra thanks if you made it this far. It was fun looking back on this with my buddies who were involved and reminisce. I’ve tried to make sure all the details here are accurate without giving away too much. The case is over and done with so the proceedings are publicly accessible but a police report, this is not. Simply my own musings I like to look back on while throwing a couple beers back with the boys at Hooters or wherever else we go that has cheap beer and wings.

I don’t entirely have a plan for this series other than I’d like to work on it. It's a bit of a passion project so I’ll definitely continue to put stuff out here. I just can’t guarantee something like an upload schedule considering I am still employed. On one hand it's nice. This can remain a hobby and something I enjoy without the need to focus on monetizing what I make. On the other hand, I really don’t have as much time to work on it as I’d like. I guess we’ll see.

In any case I hope you guys enjoyed c: I know I had fun drawing this especially with my totally not obvious references to certain popular anime.

Oh and to the boys. Prove they weren’t there. If you know you know.