 According to bigoted officer Jack Hanlon during a conversation with John Kelly, the force was up until the 1960s a majority Irish American department with some Italian American and Jewish officers, but only a few African Americans.Fancy's wife is Lillian (played by Tamara Tunie); they have two daughters when the show begins and a son, born during the run of the show.He loves his wife dearly, which causes him to be overprotective of her
when learning of her last pregnancy (his son, Art Jr.), because of her diabetes, and it took some time for him to apologize to her.