
“We have lost such an incredible individual who filled our hearts with love and happiness,” Larry Mizel of the Mizel Institute said in an email. We needed someone with credibility and some years under his belt.”ĭavis was well-respected throughout the community. “His assistance, guidance and input were invaluable.

“That was when we were having great challenges in the Denver Sheriff Department,” said Mary Dulacki, chief deputy director of public safety. He advised Mayor Michael Hancock and helped the city find a consulting firm to analyze the department.
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In 2014, he worked with the Denver Department of Public Safety to help reform its sheriff’s department after a series of high-profile excessive force cases caused the city to pay out millions in settlements and left a scar on the city’s law enforcement. He most recently worked as a security advisor in Denver to the National Football League. My heart goes out to his family and friends across the state and around the world.”Īfter leaving the Hickenlooper administration, Davis stayed in Colorado to work as a security consultant.

We lost a great Coloradan and a great man today. “Jim was unwaveringly caring and empathetic, helping responders and victims to deal with some of the worst tragedies imaginable. He was the unsung hero who made the 2008 DNC Convention a great success, and Colorado was fortunate that he agreed to come reorganize our Department of Public Safety right before four of the most difficult years for our state,” Hickenlooper said in a statement. “Jim Davis, in the face of danger and disaster, always put others first. During his three-year tenure, Davis oversaw 13 presidential-declared disasters, according to his biography with the Bose Public Affairs Group website where he is listed as a senior policy advisor. In his first bureau assignment, he worked on a three-year undercover operation called Silver Shovel that ended with several convictions, including those of six Chicago aldermen, in a drugs and bribery scandal.Īfter his 26-year FBI career ended, Hickenlooper appointed Davis to serve in his cabinet as public safety and homeland security advisor and to lead the department.

He joined the FBI at 24 after earning an accounting degree at Michigan State University and working as a certified public accountant in Chicago, according to his biography on the FBI’s website.
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While in Denver, Davis directed the local investigation of shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi in 2009, which was part of an international terrorism probe of a plot to bomb New York City subwaysĭavis was a Detroit native. 12, 2003 photo provided by the FBI, James Davis, right, poses as booking photographs were taken of deposed Iraq leader Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq.ĭavis arrived in Denver just in time to supervise FBI agents from across the country who came to town to provide extra security for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. He was not healthy and he had not eaten well.” In this Dec. He was just a sick, old man,” Davis said in the 2008 interview. In the picture, Hussein is facing a wall where a photograph of President Bush is taped above the dictator’s bed. Davis kept a photograph of him and Hussein, who refused to turn for a profile mug shot after his capture by American forces.
