Car thefts rates have tripled in Baltimore. We visited the hardest-hit neighborhood.

Sarah Brooks had to do a double take when her son told her that the car was gone. One night in August, her 2013 Hyundai Sonata was stolen from the street in front of her house in Baltimore’s Frankford neighborhood. What’s unsettling, Brooks said, is that the thieves were bold and took her property even though she and her neighbors have camera systems.