the entrapment protocol: "Please commit a crime"
So when somebody calls his room’s phone, even on video, and wants to buy some sort of substance, they have to right off the bat utter the words ‘Please commit a crime,’
Context
The dealer's self-protection rendered as a scripted ritual: every buyer must first demand aloud that Pemulis commit a crime, on the record, so that any later informant or wiretap has him legally entrapped rather than dealing. The paranoia is total and procedural, a whole liturgy of coercion-in-reverse — the same "please commit a crime" a Newton buyer named from the other side of the phone.