In the police department, he was subject to what he later called 'Jew name-calling' (although he also said his Jewishness had never held back his career).
He was also someone who'd had to face prejudice himself. Far from being just another heavy-handed city cop, he was a veteran with the skills and wounds to show for it. But although he'd be left with back problems for the rest of his life, Pine still found time to write the military's official manual on hand-to-hand combat. Drafted into the Army, he'd fought all over Europe in World War II before getting injured when a landmine exploded nearby. As New Jersey Jewish News described in his 2010 obituary, Pine was a guy who'd seen action.
