LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Former U.S. Rep. and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers referred to as on Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan to ask President Trump for “backup” to assist decrease town’s violent crime charges.
In an announcement launched Sept. 4, Rogers stated Detroit has turn into a “hub” for violent crime.
“These aren’t just statistics,” Rogers stated. “They’re people and families, whose lives have been flipped upside down because they aren’t even safe in their own community anymore. We have got to make our cities safe again. The Mayor of Detroit should be on the phone with the President now calling for backup.”
Regardless of that assertion, Detroit noticed a 19% drop in homicides in 2024 from 2023. Final 12 months’s price was the bottom it had been in 50 years.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is a lifelong Democrat who’s working an unbiased marketing campaign for governor in 2026.
“Rogers is proving himself just another uninformed, grandstanding politician,” stated John Roach, a spokesperson for Duggan. “In 2013, the Metropolis of Detroit had greater than 750 carjackings. In 2025, we had 57 as of yesterday, a 90% discount. Our sturdy partnership with US Lawyer Jerome Gorgon has simply added a number of extra federal prosecutors to drive the violence down even additional. The historic drop in Detroit crime in recent times has come from the efforts of great regulation enforcement professionals, not from non-serious politicians like Rogers.”
Trump has deployed the Nationwide Guard and different troops to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. A choose dominated Sept. 2 that the president broke the regulation by deploying the army to LA. A lawsuit by the District of Columbia on Sept. 4 asserts that Trump’s deployment is compelled “military occupation,” the Related Press reported.
Rogers cited an annual FBI report of crime statistics the place Detroit was seventh within the nation in violent crime. Lansing was twenty third on the record, Jackson was fifty fifth.
“Garbage in, garbage out,” Sean Kennedy, a coverage advisor for the Regulation Enforcement Authorized Protection Fund, advised MLive final month. He stated FBI statistics are “unreliable at best and deceptive at worst,” in an April 2024 op-ed co-written with Mark A. Morgan, a former assistant director with the FBI.
Kennedy stated FBI crime reporting is voluntary and barely audited. He stated there’s proof some companies deliberately miscategorize or underreport crime statistics to enhance their knowledge.
Rogers is working for Gary Peters’ Senate seat in 2026 as a Republican candidate. State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Birmingham, and former Wayne County Well being Director Abdul El-Sayed are additionally working.
On social media, Stevens stated “it was wrong in ’67 and it’s wrong now.”
El-Sayed criticized the assertion in a information launch.
“Mike: Detroit doesn’t need masked agents cosplaying cops,” he wrote. “Michiganders in Detroit and past want the Medicaid Trump simply minimize, the paychecks he’s making smaller, and the meals he’s making much less inexpensive. Cease being a Karen, and return to Florida. No one needs you right here.”
Trump endorsed Rogers for the U.S. Senate in 2024, however he misplaced to Elissa Slotkin.
This text was up to date to incorporate statements from Duggan, Stevens and El-Sayed.
