What is a "lead"?

[sloan]

What does it mean when a law enforcement agency sends a "lead" to another one of their offices in another state or city? What is a "lead"?

 

[mongo18]

It's a piece of information that might be relevant and needs to be investigated.

 

[DreamSparrow]

It's what the law enforcement agencies following you around the net are calling your threads.

 

[sloan]

It's what the law enforcement agencies following you around the net are calling your threads.

lol That actually made me smile

 

[Gordar]

What is wiktionary?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

 

[ChefChiTown]

Everybody needs to stop answering this guy's questions. That is, until he tells us what he did...

 

[titsrock]

^
Yeah I was going to say, "It means YOU need to RUN, OP!"

 

[calpoon]

who's up for a road trip to mexeeko?

 

[lost1dc]

For a second, I thought it was a youngster asking about a guitar solo.