U.S. authorities had intelligence that a team of Al Qaeda-linked terrorists had infiltrated the United States and planned a 2003 attack on the New York City subway system with homemade cyanide bombs, ...

That’s the formula that has fueled a 16% across-the-board drop in subway felonies in the first eight months of the year. From January through August 2003, there were 2,072 felonies – or about eight a ...