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New Yorkers are known for darting into traffic without heeding crosswalks and traffic lights.
It’s a habit that’s largely ignored by law enforcement, but the NYPD can and does hand out hundreds of summonses for jaywalking each year. Last year, about 90 percent of all tickets were issued to black and Latino pedestrians, according to city data first reported by Streetsblog.
