After seeing a two-year crime surge from 2018 to 2022 during the previous Sheriff’s administration, our Madison County Sheriff’s Department continues to suppress crime in 2026. Under Republican Sheriff Beeman’s leadership, arrests for violence and property crimes have fallen to levels not seen in many years.
We’re fortunate to have low crime, considering the Sheriff’s Department already operates on the leanest possible budget – as it has the entire four years of the Beeman administration. In fact, every dollar of the Sheriff’s budget is voted on and approved by the County Council to ensure that a rogue Sheriff can’t go on lavish spending sprees.