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‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City
(www.theguardian.com)
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I jaywalk every day, so does everybody I know in this city, and I don't think any of us knew it was actually illegal here. Glad it's now legal but god damn was that the most unenforced law I've ever seen.
I was going to say, at least from my experience with Manhattan, everybody is jaywalking and nobody even thinks about it. I guess the cops like to give minorities a hard time in the other boroughs.
It’s a way for them to initiate a stop of a minority and then investigate the potential for other unrelated crimes.
Stop and frisk with a facade.