In my city, there was a big criminal operation stealing catalytic converters from cars parked on the street during lockdown. A lot of cars are still missing them and we all know who drives those cars: poor people living paycheck to paycheck.
As long as we have so much poverty and wealth inequality, I will aggressively oppose brutal laws with such out-of-touch priorities as noise pollution.
Driving without a catalytic converter is already illegal and for good reasons. It makes more sense to crack down on theft than to allow people to drive around pumping out cancer causing pollution and huge amounts of noise.
I personally think it makes more sense to crack down on poverty, but by your own logic you should start by cracking down on theft instead of punishing those living in poverty.
As long as we have so much poverty and wealth inequality, I will aggressively oppose brutal laws with such out-of-touch priorities as noise pollution.