We are taught that pedestrians should cross the street at a corner and that jaywalking, in the sense of crossing other than at a corner, is dangerous and illegal  It also seems true that drivers anticipate people crossing at corners more than drivers anticipate people crossing elsewhere  Thus we might infer that crossing at a corner is safer than jaywalking
Nevertheless, statistics show that more pedestrians die crossing at corners than while jaywalking
Far more pedestrians cross at corners than jaywalk.