Jay walking is miss understood alot, its only illegal if you interfere with traffic (i.e jump out in front of traffic to cross the road). Just take it to court if the fines amount is even worth your time.

Where I live jay-walking is often a necessity because there are crosswalks that simply don't work, or they're so far apart you could walk almost half a mile just to cross a street and then have to double back the exact opposite direction to get where you need to go. I've never heard of somebody actually getting written up for that... Yeesh! You should definitely be careful, but as long as the cars are stopped or the road is basically empty, it's not really that big of a deal. Sorry, OP.

Yeah, where I'm from too, drivers are very conscientious of pedestrians because people always jaywalk, (usually in the same places with no crosswalks, lol!)

use maps on your mobile..

Wow what an asshole cop, but whatever He has a ticket quota so he gotta do it

I've never understood jaywalking (we don't have it in the UK, with the exception of large motorways where you are not allowed to cross them), is it basically that you are only allowed to cross the road at certain points?

It is completely ridiculous that crossing the road is a crime in America. What does it accomplish? Anybody with two brain cells to rub together is well capable of crossing a road safely.

I know of someone that jaywalked, and went inside a place to get food. The cops were waiting outside for him, and wrote him a ticket that ended up being more than $100

I heard in Australia, if you get done for jaywalking, they can give you a demerit point against your driver's license. I think that's taking it too far

should have used a sidewalk. Some would say that it's your fault for jaywalking literally right in front of a cop.