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The history of "jaywalking" is pretty interesting.
Basically, it's a made-up thing designed to blame pedestrians for motorists being dangerous.
Kind of like when motorists "can't see" cyclists while looking down at their phones, because it's up to the cyclist to have on enough high-viz clothing, reflectors, bright lights, and a billboard saying "I'M HERE!!!!".
In most places, even when people think that jaywalking is illegal, it's actually not.
Cops around me regularly use jaywalking for fuckery too. I lived in a low income apartment directly across the street from a convenient store. Basically a stones throw from apartment property entrance to store front door. It wasn't a terribly busy road, it was four lanes and did get traffic, but it was pretty easy to find breaks in the flow and cross.
To get from the apartment to the store legally, you had to walk nearly a quarter mile (400m) to the nearest cross walk, cross, then another quarter mile back to the storefront.
Police would post up outside at that store and write jaywalking tickets all day for anyone that didn't know better. I watched those tickets escalate into detainment and occasionally searches and arrests if they argued with the officer about it.
Edit: of course if you had a car, you could just drive across the street to the store. No problem with that!
How about a bicycle, would crossing the street with a bicycle be legal?