Arrestable minor offenses could destroy a bohemian’s life

Evidence

In 1963, he was arrested for walking on the grass in Washington Square Park. Incarcerated at Rikers Island, where he had landed a few years before after an incident at the Fat Black Pussycat, then shipped to Bellevue Hospital and subjected to involuntary shock treatment, Kaufman departed New York for San Francisco in October 1963. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 309

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader claims about how legal enforcement and institutional violence structured bohemian life, and to the reader’s interest in illegality as a material condition of subculture.