one of Fancy's best detectives. After stoking an investigation based on flimsy allegations, Haverill provoked Kelly into committing an act of insubordination. Now able to discipline Kelly, Haverill assigns him to menial work as a dispatcher. Rather than accept this humiliating demotion, Kelly resigns from the force, much to Fancy's regret. In another attempt to wreck Fancy's career, Haverill later tried to use one of Fancy's informant to make it appear Fancy was corrupt. Fancy uncovered the plan and got the informant to record Haverill calling Fancy a "nigger". After Fancy and his detectives prevented the robbery of an armored car, Fancy played the recording for Haverill and gave him two choices - early retirement or a civil trial for racial discrimination. Haverill angrily retired option. Haverill's replacement, Captain Clifford Bass, was a veteran of patrol. He disagreed with Fancy at times, but was always supportive of Fancy and his detectives. 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. While Andy was often "sure" that Fancy wanted him gone and was working hard to ruin his career in private (when Andy didn't get a promotion to Detective 1st-Grade he had earned on merit, he initially thought Fancy sabotaged his application, but later admitted that the sad truth was that the NYPD top brass loathed Andy for valid reasons), he knew that Fancy was much more likely to SAVE Andy from career suicide, as he did on two occasions where Andy's alcoholism could have (and probably should have) led to him being forced to retire but Fancy gave him chances to pull himself together (which Andy, to his credit, was always able to do). Despite his bigoted obstinance, Sipowicz respected Fancy as his boss, defending him on numerous occasions, including blackmailing Fancy's