If you can't lock 'em out, give 'em nothing to steal. Parking in Dupont Circle is a nightmare—I circled nearby blocks for nearly half an hour the other day before I finally found a spot—but I haven't seen much evidence of break-ins or theft around here. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this is not true elsewhere in D.C. This sounds a bit like an urban legend, but a friend of a friend of a friend supposedly used to leave her car unlocked in a certain neighborhood where she lived because that was the only way to keep the windows from being broken by people trying to get inside. Is this why they call it city living?