Committee to elect Susan Dabaja accepted $250 from Dearborn Police Officers' Legislative Fund

Susan A. Dabaja for Judge accepted $500 from Dearborn Police Officers' Legislative Fund

In 2016 the Arab American news reported that Council President Dabaja had sent a letter to Dearborn's households disparaging their reporting work on a case involving her husband's 2008 cigarette smuggling enterprise.

In 2020 and 2021, Council President Dabaja repeatedly silenced and censured civil rights activists speaking against racist and overreaching policing practices in Dearborn.