I was exaggerating to make a point. I'm flabbergasted how accurate I was. Out of 316 tickets, 299 where males. Pretty much my point, vast majority male And yes

I was exaggerating to make a point. I'm flabbergasted how accurate I was. Out of 316 tickets, 299 where males. Pretty much my point, vast majority male And yes, I'll accept that other than drunk asshole (underage or not) males, younger adolescent male assholes may also likely contribute a bit. Vast majority (by your numbers) still 18+ males. Yes, I agree that jaywalking is totally a common practice and almost nobody (99.996% per-capita) gets ticketed. So people that jaywalk harmlessly in bustling business districts like Manhattan are more likely to get hit by a falling cartoon piano than get a jaywalking ticket. Yes, I totally completely agree that the only people that get ticketed are those that the police want to ticket for some reason (when they don't have a better one). Do you not understand that is always the way the police operates? On purpose. We pay them to do this. My central point is: I think that reason is that they are being obnoxious dicks in some way to a fairly extreme level apparently several standard deviations outside the norm and therefore deserve what they get. I think the reason for the geographical difference is that there are simply more people acting like these assholes in certain districts. Or, maybe, the po-po just thinks these young males are looking and acting like drug dealers or pimps and would like to "have a word" and need a legal pretense to do this. This would also be consistent with your evidence. Guess what? I'd applaud the initiative. If it turns out they were actually just on the way to Sunday school, then they are probably not part of that elite 316. So then, in either case, what's the problem? Sounds perfectly fine to me.