Did Sheriff Grady Judd pick on the wrong people this time?

Called The Boss Man, Judd, 57, is the Sheriff of Polk County, Florida, and a self-proclaimed arbiter of morals. Also known as “America’s sheriff,” Judd keeps a sign saying “Mayberry” sitting at the base of his driveway. If only Judd kept his county running like the jovial sheriff Andy Taylor.

As a kid, Judd played cops and robbers and wanted to be the town sheriff. He hummed the theme from Dragnet. In school, he was gangly and studious. He played no sports. His only extracurricular activity was Future Farmers of America. Judd made enough money to buy a 1970 Chevy Nova by delivering the local newspaper, building septic systems and working on an ambulance crew in Winter Haven. He married his high school steady when he was 18 years old.

He started at the Sheriff’s Office as a dispatcher making $5.48 an hour. He was eager to advance, getting degrees from Polk Community College and Rollins in Orange County and writing letters to his superiors, making suggestions and applying for higher positions.

It worked: Judd was made a deputy at 19, a corporal at 22, a sergeant at 23, a lieutenant at 25, a captain at 27. People called him a workaholic.

Decades before he became sheriff, Judd was a leader within the agency’s vice squad, using laws on lewdness, obscenity and racketeering to close more than 100 strip clubs, escort services, massage parlors and adult video and bookstores. His goal was to rid the 2,010-square-mile county of what he called “smut and dirt.”

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