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The Irish-American cop: a stereotype embedded in American law enforcement folklore. There was a time when employment in municipal police departments didn't offer the benefits, pay, and promise of career advancement like today. You got that job because it was a job and you just needed to put food on the table. There was no romantic tradition of the police that many wanted to follow. Being a cop was what you had to do to survive. Enter the mass Irish migration to America's northeast. Police work became a career field that many fell into out of necessity, and it stuck. Generation after generation of Irish and Irish-Americans flooded into police departments as they increasingly professionalized themselves, especially in cities like New York? the definitive prototype for the American cop. When you have a dominant ethnic group in any type of job field, their cultural traditions will impact the culture of that particular work. There's a reason why Amazing Grace has been the staple song for f