Jaywalking detentions are often used a precursor to stopping drug dealers and searching them. As they run across the streets to do their bid’ness, the cops use the opportunity to stop and search them.
So I’ve been told.
That walking in the street can also be a statement by a dealer and crew (crue?) that it’s his territory. Advertising as well as territory.
Cops have a hard time getting a drug arrest that will stick. A lot of time, if they can disrupt a territory, the dealer will go somewhere, if he can. It does cut down the overall business.
Sounds like one of the tools of the cops’ trade if you ask me.