This paper will lay my initial findings on the production of emergent forms of working-class hypermasculinity around the police stations of urban Cairo. In light of the role of thugs and violent informants in the recent Egyptian Uprising of 2011, this world merits serious research. Recent studies of forms of "hypermasculinity" in the ashawiyaat (informal and slum settlements) of Cairo have focused on the mobilization of Islamist discourse or morality politics, or examined the economic marginalization of young men in the context of neoliberalism. And of course there has been the occasional human rights report on the spectacular brutality of police against individual youths. But there has no systematic examination of the micro-practices of police coercively shaping and scripting working-class masculinities through the process of producing informants who comprise a vast laboring class of information-gatherers, business extorters, drug runners, and political rapporteurs. Findings from ethnographic work in two hyper-criminalized neighborhoods in Cairo, Batniyya and Basateen, among former police informants, legal aid lawyers and former police officers, will allow me to analyze the institutional practices of gendered humiliation, reembodiment, surveillance and moralization that lie at the center of the informant sector. My hypothesis is that the hypermoralized masculinity often identified with "slum Islamism" is not a religious phenomenon at all, but an effect of the systematic production of certain forms of police-violated subjectivities that dare not speak their name.