I'm not trying to educate you here - you've already proven that effort a futile cause.  But others may really want to understand the difference in the examples you wrote about.

The difference is that when your car is ticketed, it is also not crushed in a compactor or set on fire by the City.  That is what the City did with the items illegally seized from the homeless.  The City's own ordinance doesn't allow what they did.

The City cannot seize and destroy private property without due process.