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In the area around NRG Park, the stadium that hosts Houston Texans home games as well as other sporting events and conventions throughout the year, car-part theft between October 2021 and October 2022 grew four times higher compared to the rate of such crimes in 2019.
The thieves’ primary focus has been catalytic converters, which are partly made with some precious metals, and the car-part stealing spike there gave the neighborhood a dubious honor. While car-part theft rose three times across all of Houston during that same period, the quadrupling of the class E felony around NRG Park meant the area’s increased rate of that crime was the highest in the city.
KTRK, an ABC Owned Station, devoted a segment to the issue, which included tips on the ways residents can better protect their car’s catalytic converters. The package also featured data supporting its report that car part theft was the fastest-rising crime in Houston and that criminal specialists were targeting visitors to NRG Park. The areas that saw the second- and third-highest rises in car-part thievery were also places heavily trafficked by travelers: the Bush Airport area and the neighborhood around the city’s Northwest Mall.
All this specified reporting was sparked by the launch of the Neighborhood Safety Tracker, an ABC Owned Stations interactive website and app that collects and presents public record data from local police departments. Viewers in the eight cities served by ABC Owned Stations can locate their local news team’s Neighborhood Safety Tracker on their