The police said that before the shooting, the gunman had hailed the white livery cab at a corner of 145th Street and Broadway.

Officer Anthony Falconite gazed at the line of battered livery cabs idling in the rain.

Some drive livery cabs, some do maintenance, most are barely getting by.

At 8:10 p.m. on 48th Avenue in Long Island City, a gray livery cab was fired at, the authorities said.

And when he marches to court, taxi horns blare out greetings - even from the black livery cabs.

The program could eventually put tracking devices in all 41,000 livery cabs in the city by the end of the year.

Then the suspect ordered the woman to drop him off in front of the terminal, where he took a black livery cab.

At any given moment, more than 5,000 livery cabs are on the street, and two new decoys seem insufficient, he said.

Taxitronic says more than 500 cabs nationwide, including 160 yellow cabs and 70 livery cabs in New York, use its technology.

The minivan lurched into a parked livery cab, but it was unclear whether that occurred before or after the shooting.