Alivin Brooks has resigned from the Kansas City Police Board of Commissioners after being elected to the Hickman Mills Schools Board.
Brooks was a Kansas City police officer and detective between 1954 and 1964. He served on the city council from 1999 and 2003 and was also the Mayor Pro Tem during that time.
In 1989, he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve on the President's National Drug Advisory Council.
Brooks also founded the Ad-Hoc Group Against Crime and was its president and CEO for nine years.
