In "The Pedestrian," what crime did Mr. Mead commit?

The “horrible” crime that Leonard Mead commits in “The Pedestrian” is that he is alone and walking down the street. When the one robot police car left in the city of three million stops Mr. Mead, they start questioning him about this unusual habit. The police car finds out that Mr. Mead use to be a writer, but since the society doesn’t read anymore, he is unemployed. They also ask him if he is married,...

The “horrible” crime that Leonard Mead commits in “The Pedestrian” is that he is alone and walking down the street. When the one robot police car left in the city of three million stops Mr. Mead, they start questioning him about this unusual habit. The police car finds out that Mr. Mead use to be a writer, but since the society doesn’t read anymore, he is unemployed. They also ask him if he is married, as if that would explain why he needed to take long walks, and he says, “no.” Finally, they discover that Mead walks every night and doesn’t even own a “viewing screen.”  All of this suspicious behavior adds up to Mr. Mead needing to be taken to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies for a mental “adjustment” that will make him “normal” in society.