>>I suspect it is rare to get a ticket for jaywalking
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>I was with a friend that was ticketed for jaywalking. I was with him, but when the officer saw a different city on my licence, he didn't give me a ticket. Not sure why. Seems to me that jaywalking and loitering tickets are generally used to harass street-level criminals these days.

Probably. But does that make it right? Is it right to have laws that are imposed only on certain people, basically at the whim of the officer????

Me, I think not. If you're going to have a law then enforce it all the time, on everybody, or take the law outta the book.

Toronto is famous for this antic.
When relatively new to Toronto there was province-wide programs to keep drinking of alcohol out of public areas (beaches, parks, and such.
I was going with a lady friend to a 'Shakespeare in the park' event at High Park. I packed the snacks and drinks and she brought the blanket. We got there and I unpacked the food. "You didn't bring wine?", she asked. "No, it's illegal" I said. "Well then there are an awful lot of people breaking the law" said she, and I looked around and everyone had a bottle of wine or beer. There were lots of cops around. So if I had brought wine (or beer) and then did something a cop didn't take favourably to I could have been brought to the station on that pretext. WOnderful freedom, isn't it.