by Geoff Cobb 
Arguably one of the greatest films ever made about New York City, the film “Serpico” and the eponymous biography by author Peter Mass, which sold over three million copies, is also a story of North Brooklyn. If you have never seen Al Pacino’s depiction of the honest New York City cop, then you are missing one of the most tremendous film performances of the last 50 years. Pacino won…
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Thanks for the details. Unfortunately we don’t see too many hero pictures like this re the mob. We only see pics romanticizing or glorifying the mob like The God Father, Goodfellas etc., exactly what society does not need.
I often say the mafia was in a way worse than Hitler. Hitler did not abuse his children re following in his footsteps. He had no children.