Verb - in law enforcement, to overlook an obvious criminal or illegal act in order to get
bigger or better information about a
bigger crime or more important criminal from a perp.
“Ay how did you get out so
fast? They just took you down there?”
‘Man, I told them what they wanted to know and they said they would Look The Other Way on that
weed I had out on my coffee
table! So no possession charges!”
“Boy that’s what’s up. You did what you had to do. You did what you had to do!”