"Jaywalking" is the ultra-American crime of crossing a road on foot. In principle a safety measure, it was fact a gift to the car industry and in practice functions as a device for criminalizing normal behavior: in busy cities "jaywalking" is hard to avoid if you want to get around on foot, but those penalized for doing it tend not to …
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