How about, if you care so much about smashed windows, just parking your car on private property instead of taking up a piece of very valuable publicly owned rea

How about, if you care so much about smashed windows, just parking your car on private property instead of taking up a piece of very valuable publicly owned real estate FOR FREE, for the low-value use of car parking, in the middle of a place where that bit of land could house dozens of people if housing were built on it (in aggregate)? Everyone pays taxes to maintain that bit of pavement but only a few car owners actually benefit from it. I'm not sympathetic, but if car owners who park in the street actually paid the fair price to rent that bit of pavement, then I would be. And I'm putting my property where my mouth is -- I own a car and I park it on the street in a similar crowded city (NYC) that should not give away free street parking either, and I don't complain about the occasional damage. It's still much cheaper than paying for parking. (I've had spray paint, hammer dents, 3 smashed windows, and a piece of pizza left under my hood on my engine over a couple years, and the total repair costs are tiny compared to what the cheapest nearby parking would cost.) (I'm only half serious, obviously it's still a crime and is wrong, but, it's kind of messed up that a few car owners like myself get to take over a piece of the street for free while everyone else has to pay to pave it for us, to police it for us, to put up with second-order crime that comes along with putting tempting valuables all over the streets overnight, and to forego building much more useful or at least lucrative things like housing on it. Free street parking is the real crime.)