Relationship With Detective Sipowicz
Fancy was one of the characters who most influenced Andy Sipowicz, changing his once openly racist views. Most of Sipowicz's hostility toward Fancy was caused by Sipowicz's troubled past with African Americans stemming from his childhood and early days on the force infiltrating the Black Panther Party. Fancy at the same time had dealt with bigoted White police officers since his days at the police academy and was not easily intimidated by Sipowicz's racist attitudes. Fancy and Sipowicz clashed many times throughout the early years most notably over a racially charged police shooting and Sipowicz's exchange of racist words with a Black Community activist, but eventually they grew to admire each other's talents. Sipowicz would even suspect that Fancy was always looking for a reason to get rid of him, or even impeding his possible promotion to First Grade Detective. Despite his bigoted obstinence, Sipowicz respected Fancy as his boss, defending him on numerous occasions, including blackmailing Fancy's superior, Borough Commander Haverill, after Sipowicz suspected that Haverill was planning on transferring Fancy to another precinct. Fancy made it clear that he respected Sipowicz's investigative talents refusing to transfer Sipowicz out of the 15th when given the opportunity to. Fancy suspected that transferring Sipowicz would result in Andy's replacement being another bigot (as a message from Fancy's white bosses) whom he did not want to chance on being able to be as good a detective as Sipowicz. Fancy bluntly said that if a member of his family was killed, he would want Andy to be the lead investigator on the case.
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