Tow companies literally just go into parking lot of apartment complexes they have a contract with and start removing cars with expired or non visible parking stickers. Nobody called them, the car is not a problem. They then only take cash, are not available on weekends, charge you some crazy rate like 150/day, won’t even let you into the car to get your personal items, then after 15 days, they sell your car. It’s functionally just stealing from the poor
They particularly like doing it on days with bad weather too. And they are so rude and aggressive and antagonistic. I’m convinced any time a tow company is short on cash, they just send their people out there to hunt for cars to tow
And since it’s mostly poor minorities that bear the brunt of these abuses, many people are okay with it