Savelle was second in command at Brookside, which came under fire two weeks ago when an AL.com story revealed a department so intent on ticketing and criminalizing motorists that by 2020 it came to draw half the towns revenue from fines and forfeitures. Givan and Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway want to hear more, and will hold a town hall meeting today. People stopped by Brookside police more than a mile and half outside the town limits. We dont have a law that says if you dont have ID, you go to jail, he said. He feels the police saw him as prey, and treated him as such. Brookside, Ala., may only have 10 kilometres of roads, one store and a volunteer fire department, but its police force has an armoured truck; two police dogs; nine unmarked vehicles, seven. In 2020, she had explained her case this way to the AGs office: The person threatened me with an arrest if I did not take down my Facebook pictures and posts of their police officers, stop sending emails to the local politicians, as well as others, and show them (Brookside police) that I understand law enforcement practices.. Monday afternoon former Birmingham Police Officer Montague Minnifield became at least the eighth person to sue Brookside over its police and court systems. He waved it around the restaurant, in front of customers and staff. Some of the charges Savelle has faced predate his hiring at Brookside. Pettway also said issues with Brookside could draw the attention of the federal government. We get calls about Brookside quite regularly because they really go outside their jurisdiction to stop people, Pettway said. Time after time they say they were pulled over by multiple officers in multiple vehicles for minor charges such as expired tag or following too closely, that they were searched, towed, and forced to pay large fines for violations many say they did not commit. And 99% of them are lying.. I clearly did not run the stop sign as I had just seen them sitting on top of I-22 overpass. State Representative Juandalynn Givan isnt surprised by the report. State agencies have since launched audits and investigations of police there, and officials such as Alabama Lt. Gov. He was very ugly from the start.. Theres no way I was going to run that stop sign.. Mayor Mike Bryan late Wednesday said there was no conspiracy, The Town has just been made aware of this amended lawsuit, Bryan told AL.com. The town also provided a set of police stats Jones presented to the Brookside council to push for more resources and authority. The town of Brookside, Alabama holds municipal court once a month. The complaint seeks return of property and damages. Ive been irritated in these comments that come from Mike Bryan, McDonald said. No communitysmall or large can do it alone. Perez is angry at his treatment. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Officer Deshawn Mark Cook, who worked in Brookside as recently as Thursday, was arrested Friday on charges of first degree rape stemming from 2021. Perez ultimately decided to pay the $1,100 fine on top of hundreds hed already spent to get his towed car back and get the heck out of Brookside. Dawson argued in a lawsuit against Brookside and Chief Jones that Brookside has continuously used the false left lane violation as a reason to stop and detain hundreds of motorists. He said response times were long because Brookside often had to rely on the Jefferson County Sheriffs department for service. Lawyers for eight people who say they were wronged by Brookside police on Wednesday filed an amended complaint in Alabama, arguing the town, the towing company it used to seize vehicles, and 23 current and former police officers conspired to take money and property from drivers. Its a former mining town, its population about the same as it was a decade ago. I feel bad for those guys who struggle, Perez said. The release said the town has no further comment on Jones's resignation since it involves a "personnel matter." Third, police leadership and individual officers would likely benefit from training focused not only on racial profiling, but also on overall traffic enforcement strategy. WVTM 13 Digital. soon after reports of the small towns aggressive policing, AL.com detailed how the department preyed on drivers. They were doing the same thing to every person that was there. Thats why I hesitated to fight it. Police charged Harris with flickering her lights or nuisance of casting lights from motor vehicle on real property at night, which she argues did not happen and eventually was dropped. He said people have stories about their cars getting towed and being left on the side of the road, then being charged by both the town and the impound company to get their vehicles back, on top of daily storage fees. In December the mayor provided AL.com a budget document, based on previous years audits. In fact the woman her name is redacted in the report told police she turned around and hit him after Savelle snuck up behind her and grabbed her buttocks.. Harris lawyers contend she was taken to the Brookside jail, strip-searched, and told she could be jailed up to two days. The officer said he would take them both to jail because she didnt have her ID. The town of Brookside confirmed that Chief Mike Jones resigned from his position in a brief press release Tuesday afternoon. Ive never seen a possession case split like that, he said. "Their whole financial existence starts to spiral, and it was all over a light on their car not working.". You may not use this site for the purposes of furnishing consumer reports about search subjects or for any use prohibited by the FCRA. Hed been stopped for rolling the stop sign, which he disputes, and speeding, which he also disputes. It may cost some money to go through that process, he said. (Joe Songer for AL.com).Joe Songer. This is the statement from the Town of Brookside: Mike Jones resigned as the Police Chief for the Town of Brookside. The courtroom and the parking lot are packed with people. 2711 Municipal Dr. Brookside, AL 35036. Privacy Policy In an email to her May 29, 2019, Mike Jones defended the stop, and the ability to ticket outside of Brookside. Bill Dawson, a lawyer in Birmingham, said he's had about two dozen people contact him with allegations, but for years, many have been too reluctant to complain. Savelle on Monday resigned from the Brookside Department, hours after AL.com asked city officials about his past. The town announced his departure in a statement, but would not comment further. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Walker told the judge he will fight the charge. Sandra Jo Harris, a 52-year-old grandmother, claims in a lawsuit she pulled off I-22 at Cherry Avenue on Jan. 8, 2020, as she often did when she went to visit her daughter. In another case, Brookside police last year confiscated a 2014 Honda Civic owned by a man named Sean Wattson, even though Wattson was not driving and was not in the car, according to a lawsuit he filed against the town. Yet the Brookside stories come at an alarming rate. Thats a 1,478% increase, with 1.7 tows for every household in town. Brookside, which in 2018 had one full time police officer, now parks a riot control vehicle townspeople call it a tank outside the municipal complex and community center. All rights reserved (About Us). The conclusion reads: Will Ainsworth want to know how such a department could have existed. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. Roger McCondichie, the late mayor of Brookside, at the time called Jones company woes personal business and defended the hiring by saying Jones was certified and had all the credentials. Brookside has two drug-sniffing dogs one named K9 Cash to search the cars of stopped motorists. She thought the complaint was long forgotten or closed. Please keep it more-or-less civil. Defendants must pay thousands in fines and fees or pay for costly appeals to state court and poorer residents or passersby fall into patterns of debt they cannot easily escape. If you have a witness with you, theyre gonna issue you a warning., I felt that basically, that this was a way for them to make money to fund their city off the backs of citizens from other areas. Even the claims of retaliation for social media posts are not unusual in Brookside. Jones was a Helena police officer and president of the city council in the Shelby County town until late 2018 when, as ABC 33/40s Cynthia Gould reported at the time, he stopped coming to meetings without explanation while his personal security business ran into trouble. Ramon Perez felt that way as well, sitting in the courtroom and hearing defendants plead to the same charges over and over. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Asked in December how many officers were on staff, he refused to say, citing security concerns, though police staff sizes are reported regularly to the government for public consumption. Brookside police made 4.4 arrests in 2020 for every household. she added. "What if $150 is the cost of choosing between feeding my child, getting their medicine or paying this ticket?" On July 10th, 2019, 16 days after she paid her ticket, her phone rang. We dont care about tickets, Jones said. He seems to want to push the blame off on everybody else when he and (former mayor) Roger McCondichie both appointed Mike Jones knowing about his past. Jones built Brooksides police department from a sleepy, one-man agency to an intimidating force of 14 between 2018 and this year. But my behavior was right. A judge set Halls fines at $6,000, and he had to post $12,000 bond while he appealed the case, an amount Weinberg considered excessive, and one that would prevent defendants without money or support from arguing their cases in state court. Savelle was given pre-trial release, but Shelby County Community Corrections asked a judge a few weeks later to revoke Savelles bond when he willfully failed to comply with the conditions by failing to pay fees for drug screening, failing three alcohol tests and failing to show up for drug tests, court records show. CNN's Nick Valencia. Brookside is a poor town, 70% white, 21% Black, with a small but growing Hispanic population and a median income well below the state average. In addition, the police charged her with making a false 911 call, obstructing government operations by refusing to give proper papers, and disorderly conduct for yelling for others to come out of their homes. But lawyers and law enforcement officers across central Alabama have raised questions about things in Brookside they say they have never otherwise come across. I just know that the police departments not gonna be able to come back from this, she said. The AGs office this week would not confirm or deny to AL.com the existence of any case involving Brookside. At Brookside municipal court, the courtroom and the parking lot are packed with people. The Town of Brookside participates in the affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, it says. It showed police in 2020 patrolled 114,438 miles in the 6.3-mile town and issued more than 3,000 citations a 692% increase from 2018. Stories from people stopped in the ticket-happy town continue to roll down like an avalanche, since AL.com last week published the story of how the tiny town turned to aggressive ticketing to build a ballooning police force that came to provide half the towns revenue. It resulted in Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones resigning Tuesday on the same day Alabama Lt. Gov. Johnson, though it is unclear if Brookside had a Detective Johnson. [Montgomery, Alabama] Former Brookside Police Chief Dennis Ray McCoy, 53, of Dora, was recently convicted of several charges stemming from investigation by the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI), including using his official position for personal gain, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, obtaining criminal offender record information under false pretenses, and computer tampering. Police must direct traffic before the 1 p.m. court session starts.. Mayor Bryan said he inherited a bad situation when he took over as mayor in November, and was fooled by Jones. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. He reported that his Police Chief was mad.. I saw him and we looked eye to eye, the Chelsea business owner said. The officers, though many, were not well paid. Prosecutor Parnell issued a statement saying he did nothing wrong. We will be reviewing the details of the allegations with the Towns legal counsel. He returned to his job as second in command with consent of the town council, Hudgens said. He was drunk and disorderly and harassed a married couple, according to a Hoover offense report. Find 12 external resources related to Brookside Police Department. Jones was stopped on April 12 by a Covington County deputy after being clocked driving 78 mph in a 55 zone on Alabama 55 south. Officials from the examiners office were believed to visit Brookside last week. Brookside's police chief resigned in January 2022 following accusations of aggressive policing. State Rep. Juandalynn Givan, D-Birmingham, who represents the area surrounding Brookside, has called for the resignation of Bryan, Municipal Judge Jim Wooten and City Attorney/Prosecutor Mark Parnell. Vincent Witt and his sister, Tareya, who said the small police department fabricated charges against them and listed them as fugitives because Witt complained about an officers racist remark. From 2018 to 2020, spending on police rose from $79,000 to $524,000, a 560% increase. WBRC FOX6 News has reached out to the Town of Brookside leaders for a response to the special report, and we will update this story when we receive a response. Vincent Witt and his sister, Tareya, Chief Jones tried to intimidate her in a social media message, Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal black hole, Pastor, sister say rogue Alabama police force sought revenge, This Alabama county fastens ankle monitors on hundreds who arent convicted of crimes, Life on an ankle monitor in Alabama: $10 a day and inevitable imperfections, Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. Brookside has operated its police and court system with the primary objective of obtaining revenue from motorists traveling on or near Interstate-22, Harris lawyers wrote in a suit filed last year. I feel like they cant claim innocence in this situation., They saw dollar signs, she said of the mayors and the council. Fourth, Brookside should avoid over-policing and overly broad traffic enforcement which creates the appearance of ticketing for revenue. Most of the time people get stopped, theyre going to get a ticket. (Photographerlondon / Dreamstime.com) Brookside, Alabama, has a population of less than 1,500 people. "The Town of Brookside is committed to reforming our police department and setting a new standard for community policing in Brookside and Alabama," says Bryan. Traffic tickets, and criminalizing those who passed through, became the citys leading industry. At least eight officers, including Jones, have resigned or been let go since. Bill Dawson, a lawyer who has represented several clients in Brookside, said defendants have faced possession charges for a joint, with paraphernalia charges tacked on for the paper it was rolled in. Brookside, just north of Birmingham, already faces at least 10 lawsuits about its policing. held the first town hall, in which 200 people gathered, Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal black hole, Pastor, sister say rogue Alabama police force sought revenge, This Alabama county fastens ankle monitors on hundreds who arent convicted of crimes, Life on an ankle monitor in Alabama: $10 a day and inevitable imperfections, Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. The police in the city of Brookside basically created their own policing system and for years have been able to get away with it and as the report says they endangered the lives of citizens and they should be held accountable for it, Givan said. He built the department from a one-man operation to a ticket-hungry department with 10 blacked-out vehicles, two drug-sniffing dogs and a riot control vehicle. Advocates for justice reform, cops in other jurisdictions, even Jefferson Countys top law enforcement officials, have begun to question the towns tactics, and its need for an expanding force. ABC 33/40s Cynthia Gould reported at the time. Eventually she was given an inhaler and treated by paramedics. Dawson also represents Victoria Brumlow, a young woman who like hundreds more was stopped on I-22 and ticketed for driving on the left lane of the interstate. Officer Deshawn Mark Cook, who worked in Brookside as recently as Thursday, was arrested Friday on charges of first degree rape stemming from 2021. A department of nine officers in a 1,253-person town is far larger than average. Brumlows uncle, Jeff Brumlow, is the longtime prosecutor and city attorney for the city of Alabaster, and a GOP candidate for Shelby County district judge. "This city is a ticking, ticking time bomb waiting to explode," state Rep. Juandalynn Givan, who has called for other town officials to resign, told the NBC affiliate WVTM in Birmingham. The Town of Brookside forced Plaintiffs and the Plaintiff classes to give up their property and pay illegal fines through fear, intimidation, and under color of official right by imposing fines not authorized by law, seizing property without the legal right to do soand by threat of jail time unless illegal fines were paid or property unlawfully forfeited, the suit says. A small jar that once may have held marijuana, And a small tray that might have been used to roll a joint, reported just 55 serious crimes to the state in the entire eight year period between 2011 and 2018, Pastor, sister say rogue Alabama police force sought revenge, This Alabama county fastens ankle monitors on hundreds who arent convicted of crimes, Life on an ankle monitor in Alabama: $10 a day and inevitable imperfections, Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. Jones is not alone in complaining about Brookside. We are not safer because of it.. Despite that, the Shelby County case was dropped without explanation under the condition that he pay $100. Brookside officers have been accused in lawsuits of fabricating charges, using racist language and making up laws to stack counts on passersby. What happens is when it gets to be so egregious, when you go a little bit too far and you take it to an extreme as the city of Brookside did, it just wasnt about selective enforcement, it becomes routine, Givan said. Ainsworth, also a Republican, told AL.com that his office would look at legislative options to determine how to prevent towns from taking advantage of drivers passing through on highways, a problem lawmakers acknowledged is happening across the state. We encourage Brookside to form more partnerships with local, state and federal authorities to fully take back the town. Mike Jones actually knew Bo when Bo was a kid in Explorers, McDonald said. She called for the second town hall meeting this week.. Givan and Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway held the first town hall, in which 200 people gathered and 31 told stories of harassment and abuse. A manager at Dave & Busters in Hoover in 2019 called police on a man named James Bo Savelle III. Dedicated to documenting the apparent corruption of the Town and Police of Brookside, Alabama. Written with the support of Columbia Universitys Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights. All rights reserved (About Us). The town of Brookside, Alabama holds municipal court once a month. Police stops soared between 2018 and 2020. All rights reserved (About Us). Lawyers for eight people who say they were wronged by Brookside police on Wednesday filed an amended complaint in Alabama, arguing the town, the towing company it used to seize vehicles, and. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. Nationally, the average size of a force is one officer for every 588 residents, according to a Governing Magazine study that relied on federal statistics. Jones testified his officers wear gray uniforms with no Brookside insignias. Allan Armstrong, one of a group of lawyers who filed the complaint, said Brookside violated basic American rights. Brookside police gave her a ticket in May of 2019 for running a stop sign at Roberta Road and Cherry Avenue across I-22 from Brookside. But Savelle would not be fired. Current Mayor Mike Bryan has called for Brookside police to stop patrolling Interstate 22, except for wrecks and emergencies. I was scared to death even though I was doing nothing wrong.. Which is another problem altogether, Sheriff Pettway said. They've also been accused of using racist language in a community that is majority white, but also has a Black population of nearly 25 percent and a small but growing Latino population. This story was published with the support of a grant from Columbia Universitys Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights. That meeting will be at 6 p.m. at the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office Training Center in Fultondale, 3500 Happy Hollow Lane. Hudgens told Jones about the call and gave him the mans contact information. It parked a riot control vehicle townspeople call it a tank outside the municipal complex and community center. She was also charged with resisting arrest. County Office is not affiliated with any government agency. Savelle was 32 at the time of his Hoover arrest, and was shown to have previous arrests for public intoxication, DUI, public lewdness, as well as multiple drug charges, the Hoover report said. Will Ainsworth, have said Brookside and towns that use overly aggressive policing to fill their coffers must change. He saw so many people trying to park in the grassy field outside the municipal building that police had to direct traffic. The news outlet found that Jones positioned officers to stop motorists so aggressively that income from traffic fines and forfeitures rose 640 percent from 2018 to 2020, from about $82,000 to more than $610,000. Former Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones, in a photo taken by WAAO News' Blaine Wilson, after turning himself in. Police must direct traffic before the 1 p.m. court session starts. Video above: Federal class action lawsuit filed against Town of Brookside, police officers Advertisement Everybodys got a story, he said. On the other end was a caller IDd as coming from the Brookside Town Hall, she said. Leadership should be aware that large-scale statistical analyses are inherently untimely and mask individual behavior. All they do is take peoples rights. Brookside is a poster child for policing for profit, said Carla Crowder, the director of Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, a nonprofit devoted to justice and equity. Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. The BPD has managed to double the impoverished town's total income from 2018 to 2020 as a result of its 640% increase in fines and forfeitures. The town of Brookside, Alabama holds municipal court once a month. Tiny Brooksides style of policing under Jones has become known nationally in recent weeks. Read also: Brookside police patrolled social media, threatening town critics. They own the town.. In 2020 they came to $610,000. A Peace Officer sworn in the State of Alabama can enforce the law anywhere in the State of Alabama, he wrote in an email. "It's the wild, Wild West, and they created their own wild, Wild West.". Perform a free Brookside, AL public property records search, including property appraisals, unclaimed property, ownership searches, lookups, tax records, titles, deeds, and liens. He was also ticketed for improper signal, though he cant even fathom how that might have occurred. Type: The complaint seeks to establish four classes of people who were stopped and extorted by the town of Brookside, Jetts Towing Co. or the officers. But for this: The officer said the chiefs pretty upset about that post you put on Facebook. the Brookside man told AL.com. Third party advertisements support hosting, listing verification, updates, and site maintenance. But if you want real justice, I think youll go through the process. Jones again as Mayor Bryan nodded said the goal of the department is only to help people. The charges against Savelle were misdemeanors, meaning they wouldnt necessarily disqualify him from being certified as a police officer in Alabama, even if he had been convicted. Then this month the Brookside department posted on Facebook that it had hired six more officers in an effort to expand our dedication and commitment to provide superior community service & protection.. There were two cars and one SUV that surrounded my car and police were everywhere, she wrote. The accounts of drivers dozens of them are strikingly similar. You know, weve had a lot of issues with Brookside.. Across the country, the average size of a force is one officer for every 588 residents, according to a Governing Magazine study that examined federal statistics. originally filed on behalf of Cory Thomas, AL.com in January reported how Brookside used fines and forfeitures, Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. A Hoover officer wrote that Savelle had his Brookside badge and a gun in his pocket, though he initially lied about being armed when asked by officers.. She insists like many others stopped by Brookside police that she did not run the stop sign at all. His car was towed with apologies from the tow-truck driver costing him several hundred dollars. I could take over the whole county with numbers like that, he joked. Jones, accompanied by his lawyer, Corey Bryan of Andalusia, turned himself in at the Covington County Jail on Monday, Covington County Sheriff Blake Turman said. The office of state Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, declined to comment Friday about the traffic stops in Brookside. She spelled it out in her complaint to the AGs office and in notes to the Jefferson County Sheriffs Department, county commissioners and others. Brookside State: Alabama Zip Code: 35036-2000 County: Jefferson County Phone #: 205-674-9275 Fax #: 205-674-9547. Fairness and real justice, I believe, is something people are looking for when it comes to law enforcement. Others werent so fortunate. In Brookside, complaints about retaliation have come time and time again, as in the case of Rev. Police must direct traffic before the 1 p.m. court session starts. They seek damages against the individual police officers for wrongful fines, forfeitures, and arrests, including mental anguish damages., In trying to establish a conspiracy, the complaint contends that the town of Brookside, its court and its officers, exist to extract the payment of unlawful fines from the people.. By 2020 officers in the sleepy town were undergoing SWAT training and dressing in riot gear, even as the city continued with only a volunteer fire department. He was released after posting $20,000 bail. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. I wouldnt be surprised if they opened up an investigation. Then-Council member Bryan was there each time the police department reported their revenues to them during council meetings. State agents last week began an inquiry and audit into the Brookside Police Department to find out whether it and its officers complied with state laws and regulations, according to a statement from Chief R. Alan Benefield, executive secretary of the Alabama Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission. This is extortion., The 46-page complaint claims each of the named police officers, under former police chief Mike Jones, knew that they were violating the constitutional, statutory, and common law rights of the Classes pled herein, and did so to create more revenue for the Town of Brookside so that they, in turn, could enjoy the fruits of that revenue in the form of pay, benefits, equipment, and receipt of the profits from policing as described herein.. He informed me that my case was never closed, said Jones, who lives in Forestdale near Birmingham. The man is still afraid of retaliation, and asked for anonymity. However, our analysis did find significant evidence of selective enforcement with respect to warning tickets. We respect the process and its outcomes., Montague Minnifield talks passionately about his experience with Brookside Police. He and members of the town council complained of. "Ferguson made us realize it wasn't just Ferguson," said Priya Sarathy Jones, the national campaign director at the Fines and Fees Justice Center,which advocates for fees to be eliminated in the justice system and fines to be equitably enforced. Savelle pulled out a Brookside Police Department badge before Hoover officers arrived, according to the report that cited witnesses and the presence of cameras. As we have seen, overly aggressive traffic enforcement is not the way forward. Bryan served as president pro tem of the council for years, and performed the duties of mayor during the long illness of his predecessor. City officials have said they cannot comment on personnel issues, though they did provide, as part of the records request, a breakdown of officer pay. Soon after reports of the small towns aggressive policing, AL.com detailed how the department is only to people... 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