Foot,

When I was coming up, the last remnants of the Italian community were leaving Newark. The old school guys used to hold court in their stores/shops and talk about how nice Newark used to be and how cops used to whoop ass if young guys got out of line. When I saw Goodfellas the first time, Tommy's story about getting tuned up by cops in "See-caucus", sounded just like some of the old stories. Joe Pesci is from Newark so maybe he added some of that to the script.

BANG!POW!

When I asked them about parents' reaction, they said the parents were ashamed to see cops bringing their kids home and just happy that the kid wasn't arrested.