Do you dress well, and generally look like a law abiding citizen? I'll bet you never get stopped.
If you wrapped yourself in blankets and started pushing a shopping cart in an affluent area, you would learn all about laws that you had no idea existed.
When you're making sweeping generalizations and arguing in near absolutes, citations are very much needed.
https://www.calbike.org/freedom-to-walk-campaign/
Black people are 4.3x more likely to be stopped and ticketed for jaywalking than the white population as a whole in San Diego, and 3x - 3.7x more likely to be stopped in LA (depending on where).
These discrepancies, and use of the jaywalking rules as a targeting mechanism, were one of the very reasons for the change in law that this thread is discussing.
How many actual jaywalking citations are given? That would be a good place to start?
Wouldn’t that statistic still support my assertion that jaywalking is used as a pretext to harass certain populations?