if you live on a street and forgot to move your car for the street sweeper in the morning while you were getting ready then it'll cost you hundreds of dollars,

Cause like what's the other option here? The state picks up the tab to have what would probably be a lot of cars being moved? No more street sweeping?

The other option is to have better city planning. They could have parking garages, lots, or spaces mandated for people who live nearby. But, also, street sweeping doesn't need to stop. They can go around the cars. Do you know what happens in more affluent neighborhoods when they don't move their cars? Nothing, no fines at all. The streets still manage to be cleaned. They are, of course, able to mostly keep their cars off the street because they have garages and driveways, etc. but parking should be made available to all tenants to avoid these issues. There should be parking structures related to neighborhood housing to reduce the need for street parking. Tenency can come with a sticker to place on your car and, there, problem solved. That would also help beautify the streets so they can be pedestrian walkways.

See the problem I see here is that your entire post seems only to center around the problems of the working poor so long as they do have cars (not that they don't need them, don't get me wrong), but like, what about people not in cars?

Yes, that is my focus because they are the ones, obviously, who will be more impacted by parking enforcement rather than those without cars. There are a lot of working poor without cars, but they suffer more mostly because they don't have a car rather than because others do have cars. And we should have better transportation, etc. so that they don't suffer just because they don't have a car.

The thing is, we are both discussing very different conditions. I'm in the US, and I'm assuming you're in Europe or the UK. Cars here are absolutely necessary, with extremely rare exceptions. I would prefer to live in a place, like Europe, where driving was optional, there was better public transportation, and the streets were more pedestrian and cyclist friendly. But it's just not the reality here. The focus does go toward the driving working class, we are forced to drive. And, on top of that, we are hounded in the cities by parking enforcement vultures.

As I said initially, there has to be some reprimand for certain violations. Of course. As you mentioned, people parking on sidewalks where people are walking or those with disabilities have to get by, of course, there should be a ticketing or something. Everyone suffers from this, including drivers once they exit their cars. I'm not saying reprimands should never exist at all, I'm saying it shouldn't exist in its current form. And the issues you raise are the exceptions to what they actually do, which is just harass regular people with minor infractions. Arguing that we should have parking enforcement because they deal with the rare issue is like saying we should have cops because sometimes they arrest murderers. Yes, someone should deal with those things that impact others but, as it stands, they are the ones who are mostly dealing the negative impact and mostly to working class people. It goes back to capitalism, in the US there are quotas set on them because cities and departments want the extra revenue. This turns them into predatory roles, both parking enforcement and regular cops but at least parking enforcement don't carry guns to kill people—for now, anyway. I have seen people park on sidewalks in Europe and I've seen people here do stupid things too, they should be ticketed but the parking system—as well as other parallel systems—need serious overhaul. Until then, fuck parking enforcement.