This is a slur on the island's hard-working and law-abiding immigrant community.

It appeared that this wasn't the peaceful, law-abiding community that I had believed it to be.

A criminal would find it difficult to operate in so law-abiding a community.

"This is a law-abiding community," he said.

Botany Bay is a pretty law-abiding community, Miss Friday.

And every morning the illegal underground economy in this outwardly law-abiding community helps the commuters out.

"But the Dominican community is a law-abiding community and we will comply with whatever is decided."

But, the judge said, "You have committed a serious disservice, and the taxpaying and law-abiding community has every right to be protected from this."

The net result was rising crime and falling detection rates - an astonishing pattern in our sensible and law-abiding community.

Allowing suspects to quickly regain their freedom, he said, would waste police resources and disillusion the law-abiding community .