Rethinking public safety in Arkansas runs against powerful financial interests

By: Abbey Kim

Outlets: Arkansas Advocate

Published: April 2, 2026

Words: 2,854

Last Updated: 3 months, 4 weeks ago

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This article was produced as a collaboration between Arkansas Advocate and the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale.

Johnny Crocker is not afraid of conflict. After two decades in the U.S. Army — most of them spent in the Special Forces — the Franklin County sheriff is used to combat.

But when he walked into his first Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association conference, he confronted a different kind of battlefield: a sea of vendors, all …

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