I hate to break it to you, but in NYC, nearly everyone, regardless of ethnicity or melanin content, jaywalks. In fact, we don't call it jaywalking, we call it

I hate to break it to you, but in NYC, nearly everyone, regardless of ethnicity or melanin content, jaywalks. In fact, we don't call it jaywalking, we call it "crossing the street." And the fact that out of 8.5 million people, only 80 were cited and 79 of those were people of color (and all 80 male), it's not only obvious that such citations are motivated by something other than "routine" law enforcement, but it's clearly just a trumped up charge to stop someone they wanted to stop anyway. Spend an hour in midtown Manhattan and you'll see that's absolutely the case.