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Looking the other way?

Needless to say, that is wrong. In both our examples, by choosing to ignore the problem, US Soccer officials and the policeman in the street may make the situation worse.

It’s harsh to call them connivers and accomplices of crime but it does to a degree feel like that way.

So, in short, metaphorically speaking, when people choose to look the other way, they’re refusing to tackle a problem head on. Instead, they try to hide their head, like an ostrich, in the sand and pretend they do not see the problem at all.

To hammer the point home, let’s read a few media examples of people choosing to look the other way – when they shouldn’t:

1. Federal regulators “looked the other way” while Wall Street firms engaged in dubious practices that led to securities charges against Goldman Sachs, the senior House Republican on financial issues said Tuesday.

Rep. Spencer Bachus (Ala.), the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, also suggested there was a certain amount of “cooperation and conspiracy” among large financial firms and regulators.

Bachus asserted that officials at Treasury or the Federal Reserve might have known about similar cases at other institutions, though he didn’t specify during which administration he suspects the cooperation to have taken place.

“You have to believe the Fed knew about it; you have to believe the Treasury knew about it. You have to believe that there were people at the Fed and the Treasury that were cooperating with all of this,” he said during an interview with CNBC. “And the whistle should have been blown, and it wasn’t.”