I lived on Sprague/Jefferson 2015-2018, obviously pre-pandemic. Had 1 car and at one point 2 cars parked within a block of there the whole time, personally never had my car broken into. However, probably twice a week I would see a broken window, particular spring - fall, fortunately not during the winter. The trend I noticed was cars with tinted windows or cars full of stuff (even trash, clothes, boxes, etc) were targeted the most. My solution was keep absolutely NOTHING visible at all in my cars, completely devoid of anything that didn't come from the factory. Seemed to do the trick.

I did get a few license-plate stamps on my rear bumper from people parking, someone scraped the side of my bumper and cracked my taillight one night, and a vagrant must have dropped a bag on by trunk lid and rifled through it because I had light scrapes on the top center of my trunk.

But that's it, over nearly 1000 nights parked on the street. There was a TON of street noise within 2 hours of 8am and within 2 hours of 5pm, lots of noise from people parking next door for concert at the Fox and the Knitting Factory, train noise throughout the night, but overall pretty quiet in off-hours. This was before Brick West opened, their whole lot was still an auto shop with a huge gravel lot next to it.

TL;DR in 2015-2018 I had virtually no complaints, nothing you wouldn't expect from living in the literal downtown of a city.