Background
Fancy was able to rise through the ranks at a very rapid speed according to coworkers either because of or in spite of being an African American on the NYPD. Fancy was one of the newer African American commanders on a force previously controlled by Irish American police officers (According to bigoted officer Jack Hanlon in a conversation with John Kelly, the force was up until the 1960s a Majority Irish American Department with some Italian American and Jewish American but only a few African American Police Officers).
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