Los Angeles Police Department focusing on jaywalkers

ADAM NAGOURNEY nytimes.com LOS ANGELES — In a city of seemingly endless highways — with its daily parade of car accidents, frustrating traffic jams and aggressive drivers — the Los Angeles Police Department these days is training its sights on a different road menace: jaywalkers. Officers on the lookout for jaywalkers in downtown Los Angeles. Sometimes the ticketed respond with a road rage of their own. It is not quite “Dragnet,” but the Police Department in recent weeks has issued dozens of tickets to workers, shoppers and tourists for illegally crossing the street in downtown Los Angeles. nytimes.com