(23.10.2012) Shamiur Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bangladeshi descent who has now denounced his work as an informant, said police told him to embrace a strategy called „create and capture.“ He said it involved creating a conversation about jihad or terrorism, then capturing the response to send to the NYPD. For his work, he earned as much as $1,000 a month and goodwill from the police after a string of minor marijuana arrests.
„We need you to pretend to be one of them,“ Rahman recalled the police telling him. „It‘s street theater.“