About ten years ago, in Bellevue Washington, I saw a guy j-walk in a light traffic street into an office building in a spot where cops actually look for it. The cop revved up the bike, shot across the street, and jumped the curb so violently he almost lost it and slid throught the plate glass frontge on the building. He dashed into the building on foot to try to catch the guy.
Seattle is one place where jaywalkers have never been tolerated. When I was in the seventh grade and fresh from Eastern Washington I jaywalked diagonally across Beacon Ave and S. Myrtle St. The cop read me the riot act and gave me a ride home. And I got ticketed for jaywalking when I attended the UW. So Seattle residents just don’t normally do it. When I worked in Olympia you could always tell the people from Seattle because they didn’t jaywalk, whereas the natives had no fear.