You can get a ticket, of course. But it's also Yet Another Pretense to do a search and (for example) find drugs on you or whatever. "Well don't have drugs on y

You can get a ticket, of course. But it's also Yet Another Pretense to do a search and (for example) find drugs on you or whatever. "Well don't have drugs on you and you'll be fine" what is the point of search warrants then? Jaywalking is not the only thing like this, but it's among a list of many things that police can use as a green light to do a reasonless search for... well, based on their gut feeling that they are looking at A Bad Guy. There is perhaps a deeper argument about maybe not saying that doing a minor infractions should allow police to search you for other crimes, but absent that at least getting rid of pretexts for people to just automatically lose their rights for behavior most people are doing on a daily basis seems like a good idea.