"They can blend in among all the law-abiding residents and legitimate businesses."

The police believe that law-abiding residents welcome their presence, but are afraid to be seen cooperating.

Applicants must show that they have been law-abiding, tax-paying residents for at least seven years.

Since then, increasingly aggressive police tactics have convinced many law-abiding residents that officers see them as criminal suspects first.

The law-abiding residents of Compton lived in homes with bars on windows and double locks on doors.

By doing that he humiliated thousands of perfectly peaceful and law-abiding residents whose only offense was that they are black.

"You'll find that I'm a law-abiding resident of the station, as eager to maintain order as anyone else."

In the Bronx, law-abiding residents often contact me to demand greater prosecution of drug sellers.

Moreover, he said that law-abiding residents - those hundreds of new homeowners, for example - have rarely been caught up in the violence.

"I intend to assist you and law-abiding residents in eliminating this plague from public housing."