Mr Rogers, 50, of Freshfield Close, spoke to the Herald after losing his position as street warden following a court case where he was bound over for assaulting a 12-year-old boy.
Reporter Brian Pollard took to the streets of Tower Dene Estate to find out what residents thought.

RESIDENTS are being terrorised by a gang of mindless yobs who plunge the area into darkness every night by sabotaging street lights.
People on one road in Langney are plagued with youths hanging round street corners and causing unrest.
One resident spoke of sneering yobs vandalising her garage, while others mentioned a battered telephone box that had become a focal point for local troublemakers.
Another resident revealed how a nearby empty property had, until recently, been turned into a squat for drug-takers.
And one person spoke of of a teenage tearaway – well-known to locals – who regularly commits criminal damage by tearing the covers off street lamps and ripping through wiring inside.
To add to residents' frustration, the under-age yob is already the subject of an anti-social behaviour order for previous misdemenours – and could be arrested for any infringement by police.
A mum-of-two living on Wayford Close said, 'We get the phone box at the end of the road vandalised all the time. It was set alight a couple of weeks ago.
'I've had my back gate smashed and I'm really fed up with the garage being done at night.'
The 33-year-old woman said she was hoping to move away from the are. 'It's not the sort of place you would want for your kids to grow up in.
'There's an empty flat across the road and we were forever getting youths going in there. They were taking drugs in there and were used it as a squat in the end.
'It's got worse in the three-and-a-half years we have been here. We can't get any sleep.
'There are kids effing and blinding at 12 o'clock in the day.
'I think everybody is miserable round here to be honest.'
Another woman said, 'We've got two street lights in the road. A certain young gentleman who has got an anti-social behaviour order pulls the front of the street lamp off rips the wiring out.
'The reason for doing the one down the phone box is so we can't see what they are doing there.
'And we're waiting for the phone box to go again. They were banging and kicking it the other night
'It's costing us each each time it's repaired.'
Referring to Eastbourne's leading police officer Martin Steven's move to a desk job in Lewes, she said, 'He was the only one who appeared to be helping things in getting crime and druggies out of the way.
'If we have lost him – and our beat bobbies – we're out on our own round here.
'It's not going to be long before people start taking the law into their own hands.
But a mum-of-two who lives in nearby Freshford Close said, 'It's the same anywhere. You have gangs hanging around in other estates.
'There are groups who hang around but it's how you talk to them. If you go in with all guns blazing you'll just wind them up.
'They just need a release, somewhere to go.'
No-one wanted to be named for fear of reprisals.