Bookbag: "...he should, at the end of his indoctrination, become Irish."

From Thomas R. Brooks's Commentary article "New York's Finest" (August 1965):

Richard Dougherty, who spent some time as the Deputy Commissioner in charge of public relations for the Department, explains in his perceptive novel, The Commissioner, that "it was a phenomenon of the strange process which constituted the making of a New York police officer that, no matter what his origins, he should, at the end of his indoctrination, become Irish."