[WillowTheWhisp]

Well I can see the bit where it says:

On the days after the professor's ordeal, the Atlanta police were continuing to stop historians from jaywalking. Anybody caught crossing the street against the light was reprimanded. Many were asked to produce their driver's license. But police did not arrest anybody. Some historians were mildly amused by the attentiveness of the police to the crime of jaywalking.

I don't see where it says that they'd been doing it before.

When I read that part previously I was just pleased to see that they hadn't manhandled anyone else and assumed that perhaps they'd learned that less is more.