It was their way or the highway.
Top NYPD brass misused the department’s internal-affairs bureaucracy and doled out “highway therapy” to grind down a mid-career officer for the crime of ticketing city employees for parking violations and for failing to recognize then-Assistant Police Commissioner Kaz Daughtry, according to court papers.
Plaintiff Mark Schwartz, a 15-year veteran of New York’s Finest, sued Daughtry, former Chief of Department John Chell and another top NYPD official late last year in a filing that lays out an apparently coordinated effort among Daughtry and Chell to intimidate and menace him for minor issues while using cars as both a pretext and a tool for punishment…