Links to specific Questions:
- What sets you apart from the other candidates?
- What are your greatest achievements?
- What are your goals for the next four years, and how will you achieve them?
- How do you plan to get the voters involved in getting more money for the Sheriff’s Office?
- Why do people use drugs? What is the root issue?
- How can the voters of Hickman County support the Sheriff’s Office and the deputies?
- How would you attract the right kind of people for a Reserve Deputy Program?
- Do you have anything you’d like to share?
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Candidacy Announcement
Johnny Davis is a lifelong resident of Hickman County. He grew up in the Shady Grove/Primm Springs area of the county. Johnny graduated from Hickman County High School in 1978. He worked for Tencon until they closed their doors. He has served in County Government as a Commissioner. A certified welder by trade had a passion for law enforcement. He was elected to serve as Constable for many years and then began working for Turney Center as a Correctional Officer. In 2004 he was hired as a road deputy for the Hickman County Sheriff’s Department. In 2010 he was moved from road deputy to detective where he currently serves the department.
He is an active lifetime member with the Hickman County Rescue Squad where he has been serving for 38 years. He is a member of Knights of the Pythias.
Johnny has three daughters and five grandchildren. He has a vested interest in the welfare of this county. Feel free to reach out with any questions, comments, and/or concerns.
Your website and/or contact info?
What is the job of the sheriff, in your own words?
- Serve Papers
- Patrol Communities
- Protect people and their property
Which of these do you believe best describes the responsibility of the sheriff’s office?
Responding to crimes and bringing offenders to justice
If the Federal Government passed a radically unconstitutional law that affected Hickman County, such as a mass gun ban/confiscation, what would your response be?
The Federal Government better have their own task force.
What is your position on if and when no-knock warrants should be used?
For violent offenders where officers lives are in danger.
What are your thoughts on bringing back the Reserve Deputy program?
It would be a good thing if regulations allow.
Do you believe the Bible gives guidance on how the Sheriff should discharge his duties? If so, what are some of the main verses or principles that you look to?
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
(Psalms 23:1-6)
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
(Romans 13:1-7)