Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar tore into New York Democrats for a criminal justice system he says now works for the offender, not the victim.

Broome County Sheriff Frederick Akshar went to Capitol Hill Tuesday and did what Albany Democrats refuse to do: he said out loud that New York’s criminal justice system is broken by design.

Akshar, a former Republican state senator now serving as Broome County’s elected sheriff, accused Democrat lawmakers of defending criminals at the expense of law-abiding New Yorkers.

Akshar testified Tuesday before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement at a hearing titled “The Continuing Tragedy of Sanctuary Laws.”

The Broome County Sheriff’s Office confirmed he was called to Washington to discuss Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act” and the federal lawsuit filed by 15 New York sheriffs challenging Albany’s ban on ICE cooperation agreements.

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Akshar has been saying the same thing for months. In July, he told reporters he does not answer to Hochul or Attorney General Letitia James. He answers to the people of Broome County.

In August, discussing the sheriffs’ lawsuit, he laid out the wreckage Democrats built over eight years: cashless bail, Raise the Age, discovery reform, “Less is More,” Clean Slate, HALT, prison closures, and the firing of corrections staff.

Policy after policy, he said, put criminals ahead of law-abiding New Yorkers. Deputies on one shift arrested nine people already wanted on failure-to-appear warrants, the same names, week after week, because the system is broken.

He joined the lawsuit, he said, to stand up for the men and women in uniform “against the continued erosion of accountability and common sense in our criminal justice system.”

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that 15 county sheriffs, including Broome, sued Hochul after the anti-ICE law took effect.

Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin said Hochul had “escalated her administration’s war on the police” and expanded policies that “put criminals before the citizens of New York.” The Federation for American Immigration Reform filed the case, arguing Albany is stripping independently elected sheriffs of authority Congress already gave them.

Hochul’s response was the usual sanctuary lecture. She called the law a “stand against ICE overreach,” threatened legal action against any sheriff who kept working with federal immigration authorities, and dared the plaintiffs to “bring it on.”

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