Policing in the Shadow of Legality: Pretext, Leveraging, and Investigation Cascades

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Terry Skolnik, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

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Abstract

Police officers often exercise their authority at the boundary of legality. Two of policing’s features contribute to this tendency: first, the scope of certain police powers is unclear; second, officers enjoy broad discretion to initiate proactive police encounters. This article argues that these interrelated features of policing result in three law enforcement phenomena: pretext, leveraging, and investigation cascades. Pretext denotes that police officers invoke lawful justifications to pursue unlawful aims. Leveraging implies that officers exploit individuals’ psychological vulnerabilities to secure compliance or to receive consent to engage in more intrusive investigatory tactics. Investigation cascades occur when officers gather information through police powers with low burdens of proof to exercise more invasive investigation tactics with stricter burdens of proof. This article demonstrates how criminal procedure fails to adequately protect individuals against pretext, leveraging, and investigation cascades. It concludes with a set of concrete proposals to address these three law enforcement phenomena.

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Skolnik, Terry. "Policing in the Shadow of Legality: Pretext, Leveraging, and Investigation Cascades." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 60.3 (2023) : 505-548.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/2817-5069.3923
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156. See Ontario, The Honourable Justice Michael H Tulloch, Report of the Independent Street

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158. See Bennett Capers, "Policing, Technology, and Doctrinal Assists" (2018) 69 Fla L Rev

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159. See Janice Nadler, "No Need to Shout: Bus Sweeps and the Psychology of Coercion" [2002]

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163. Verniero & Zoubek, supra note 162 at 6-7.

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165. Ibid at 86.

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167. Ibid at 4.

168. Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Street Checks Report, by Scot

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169. See Part II(B), above.

170. See Alafair S Burke, "Consent Searches and Fourth Amendment Reasonableness" (2015) 67

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171. See e.g. Miller, "Encountering Resistance," supra note 160 at 342 (describing the "talk" that

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173. Ibid.

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175. See Paul Butler, Choke Hold: Policing Black Men (New Press, 2017) at 8.

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181. Ibid at 75-77.

182. Ibid at 78-79.

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184. Ibid at 291.

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187. Ibid at 56.

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191. Ibid (the research shows that 16,228 requests to conduct a consent search were made and

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195. Ibid at paras 47-49. Note that the Court still concluded that Grant was detained based on

other aspects of the officers' conduct, such as displaying their police badge to the defendant, blocking his path, and questioning him pointedly. Ibid at paras 48-52.

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197. R v Borden, [1994] 3 SCR 145.

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199. See e.g. R v Van Wissen, 2018 MBCA 110; R v McMahon, 2018 SKCA 26; R v Nicholas,

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P Alpert, Evaluating Police Uses of Force (NYU Press, 2020) at 3. Although these sources describe how individuals may overestimate the likelihood of use of force due to the

availability heuristic, it is also plausible that individuals adjust their conduct in light of how they assess the likelihood of police use of force.

215. See Lynn A Baker, "Prices of Rights: Toward a Positive Theory of Unconstitutional

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216. See Tracey Maclin, "The Good and Bad News about Consent Searches in the Supreme

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217. See Lichtenberg, supra note 177 at 260-75.

218. See Grant, supra note 11 at para 169.

219. See Sklansky, supra note 10 at 275; I Bennett Capers, "Race, Policing, and Technology"

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220. Carbado, supra note 89 at 553.

221. Ibid at 552-53

222. See Terry Skolnik, "R. v. Macdonald and the Illogicality of the Reasonable Belief Requirement

for Safety Searches" (2015) 62 Crim LQ 43 at 49 [Skolnik, "R. v. Macdonald"].

223. See Stuntz, "Privacy's Problem," supra note 219 at 1029.

224. See Don Stuart, "The Charter and Criminal Justice" in Peter Oliver, Patrick Macklem &

Nathalie Des Rosiers, eds, The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (Oxford

University Press, 2017) 795 at 799-804.

225. Ibid; Alan Young, "All Along the Watchtower: Arbitrary Detention and the Police Function"

(1991) 29 Osgoode Hall LJ 329 at 349, 365.

226. See Part I(C), above.

227. See Part II(C), above.

228. See Nirej Sekhon, "Police and the Limits of the Law" (2019) 119 Columbia L Rev 1711

at 1725; Lisa Jørgensen, "In Plain View?: R v Jones and the Challenge of Protecting Privacy Rights in an Era of Computer Search" (2013) 46 UBC L Rev 791 at 802.

229. For a similar hypothetical, see Carbado, supra note 89 at 552-53.

230. I thank the anonymous reviewer for helpful feedback and suggestions on this point.

231. See James Stribopoulos, "A Failed Experiment? Investigative Detention: Ten Years Later"

(2003) 41 Alta L Rev 335 at 339-40.

232. See e.g. Cloutier, supra note 37; R v Caslake, [1998] 1 SCR 51.

233. See Skolnik, "R. v. Macdonald," supra note 222 at 48 (noting that individuals have an

informational advantage because they know whether they are armed).

234. See David M Tanovich, "E-Racing Racial Profiling" (2004) 41 Alta L Rev 905 at 911 https://doi.org/10.29173/alr1313

[Tanovich, "E-Racing"].

235. See Alexander E Eisemann, "Addressing the Pretext Problem: The Role of Subjective Police

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236. See Slobogin, supra note 118 at 809.

237. Ibid.

238. See Criminal Code, supra note 17, s 515(6); Martin L Friedland, "The Bail Reform Act

Revisited" (2012) 16 Can Crim L Rev 316 at 320.

239. See Gary Trotter, Law of Bail in Canada, 3rd ed (Thompson Reuters, 2017), ss 3.4(e)-(f).

240. Ibid, ss 3.3-3.4.

241. Ibid; Criminal Code, supra note 17, s 515(10)(c).

242. Criminal Code, supra note 17, s 515(10)(c). See e.g. ibid, ss 88 (possession of firearm for

a dangerous purpose, which is punishable by a maximum of ten years imprisonment),

91 (unauthorized possession of a firearm, which is punishable by a maximum of five years imprisonment), 92 (possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized, which

is punishable by a maximum of ten years imprisonment). See also Controlled Drugs and

Substances Act, SC 1996, c 19, ss 4(3)-(4) (possession of a Schedule I or II substance, which

are punishable by a maximum of seven years and five years less a day, respectively), 5(3) (trafficking of a Schedule I or II substance, which are both punishable by life imprisonment).

243. For an overview of the research, see Alfred Allan et al, "An Observational Study of Bail

Decision-Making" (2005) 12 Psychiatry Psychology & L 319 at 320; Crystal S Yang, https://doi.org/10.1375/pplt.12.2.319

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244. See R v Summers, 2014 SCC 26 at paras 2, 28; Terry Skolnik, "Criminal Law During (and

After) COVID-19" (2020) 43 Man LJ 145 at 164. https://doi.org/10.5414/ALP43164

245. See Andrew Manuel Crespo, "The Hidden Law of Plea Bargaining" (2018) 118 Colum L

Rev 1303 at 1311-13.

246. See Bibas, "Plea Bargaining," supra note 206 at 2507-509.

247. See Russell D Covey, "Fixed Justice: Reforming Plea Bargaining with Plea-Based Ceilings"

(2008) 82 Tul L Rev 1237 at 1282.

248. See Palma Paciocco, "Seeking Justice by Plea: The Prosecutor's Ethical Obligations During

Plea Bargaining" (2017) 63 McGill LJ 45 at 52. https://doi.org/10.7202/1054351ar

249. Ibid at 63; Kyle Graham, "Crimes, Widgets, and Plea Bargaining: An Analysis of Charge

Content, Pleas, and Trials" (2012) 100 Cal L Rev 1573 at 1582.

250. See Russell Covey, "Reconsidering the Relationship between Cognitive Psychology and

Plea Bargaining" (2007) 91 Marq L Rev 213 at 227-28; Kienapple v R, [1975] 1 SCR 729.

I thank the anonymous reviewer for their feedback on this point.

251. Grant, supra note 11 at paras 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1386/fiin.11.6.86_5

252. Ibid at para 81.

253. See Wayne Gorman, "The Admission and Exclusion of Unconstitutionally Obtained

Evidence in Canada" (2018) 54 Court Rev 108 at 112-14, citing Ariane Asselin, "Trends for Exclusion of Evidence in 2012" (2013) 1 CR (7th) 74 at 74.

254. See Richard Jochelson, Debao Huang & Melanie Murchison, "Empiricizing Exclusionary

Remedies: A Cross Canada Study of Exclusion of Evidence under s.24(2) of the Charter,

Five Years after Grant" (2016) 63 Crim LQ 206 at 221. Mike Madden's empirical analysis arrived at somewhat similar exclusion rates. See also Mike Madden, "Marshalling the Data: An Empirical Analysis of Canada's Section 24

(2) Case Law in the Wake of R. v. Grant" (2011) 15 Can Crim L Rev 228 at 245.

255. See Benjamin Johnson, Richard Jochelson & Victoria Weir, "Exclusion of Evidence Under

Section 24(2) of the Charter Post-Grant in the Years 2014-2017: A Comprehensive Analysis

of 600 Cases" (2019) 66 Crim LQ 41 at 72.

256. See Steven Penney & Moin Yahya, "Section 24(2) in the Trial Courts: An Empirical Analysis

of the Legal and Non-Legal Determinants of Excluding Unconstitutionally Obtained

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257. See Stuntz, "Uneasy Relationship," supra note 14 at 32-35.

258. See Steven Penney, "Taking Deterrence Seriously: Excluding Unconstitutionally Obtained

Evidence under Section 24(2) of the Charter" (2003) 49 McGill LJ 105 at 112-14.

259. See Stuntz, "Uneasy Relationship," supra note 14 at 32-35.

260. Ibid at 32-35.

261. Ibid.

262. Ibid.

263. Ibid at 31.

264. See Criminal Code, supra note 17, s 462.32.

265. Ibid, s 462.34(1); R v Rafilovich, 2019 SCC 51 at para 4 [Rafilovich].

266. Supra note 17, s 462.34(5).

267. See Rafilovich, supra note 265 at para 36.

268. See e.g. David M Tanovich, The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada (Irwin Law, 2006)

at 121-83; Skolnik, "Rééquilibrer le rôle," supra note 4.

269. See generally Terry Skolnik, "Criminal Justice Reform: A Transformative Agenda" (2022) 59

Alta L Rev 631 [Skolnik, "Criminal Justice Reform"].

270. See generally ibid.

271. See Friedman & Ponomarenko, supra note 141; David Alan Sklansky, "Police and

Democracy" (2005) 103 Mich L Rev 1699.

272. See Tanovich, "E-Racing," supra note 234 at 928-29; Penney, "Driving While Innocent,"

supra note 2 at 377.

273. Ibid. Note that the Superior Court of Quebec recently concluded that random traffic stops

are unconstitutional in Luamba c Procureur général du Québec, 2022 QCCS 3866. The decision has been appealed to the Court of Appeal of Quebec. On the Luamba decision and the unconstitutionality of traffic stops, see also Terry Skolnik & Fernando Belton, "Luamba

et la fin des interceptions au hasard" (2023) 101 Canadian Bar Rev (forthcoming) (discussing the unconstitutionality of random traffic stops and the implications of the Luamba decision).

274. See I Bennett Capers, "Rethinking the Fourth Amendment: Race, Citizenship, and the Equality Principle" (2011) 46 Harv CR-CLL Rev 1 at 16. For a definition of social profiling,

see Quebec, Commission des droits de la personne et droits de la jeunesse, The Judiciarization of the Homeless in Montréal: A Case of Social Profiling, Catalogue No 2.120-8.61.2 (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, 2009) at 3 ("If, in the case of racial profiling, skin colour is the factor that triggers police intervention, in the case of social profiling, the trigger is the visible signs of poverty or marginality").

275. See Devin English et al, "Measuring Black Men's Police-Based Discrimination Experiences:

Development and Validation of the Police and Law Enforcement (PLE) Scale" (2017) 23 https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000137

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276. See Skolnik, "Rééquilibrer le rôle," supra note 4.

277. See Tyler, Jackson & Mentovich, supra note 192 at 629-30.

278. See Wortley, supra note 168 at 41.

279. See Jordan Blair Woods, "Policing, Danger Narratives, and Routine Traffic Stops" (2019) 117

Mich L Rev 635 at 704.

280. Supra note 17, ss 31, 495.

281. See Terry Skolnik & Vanessa MacDonnell, "Policing Arbitrariness: Fleming v. Ontario and

the Ancillary Powers Doctrine" (2021) 100 SCLR (2d) 187 at 201-202.

282. Ibid; Criminal Code, supra note 17, s 495.

283. See Tim Quigley, "The Impact of the Charter on the Law of Search and Seizure" (2008) 40 https://doi.org/10.60082/2563-8505.1112

SCLR (2d) 118 at 121-22; Criminal Code, supra note 17, ss 529.1, 529.3; R v Feeney, [1997] 2 SCR 1; R v Macooh, [1993] 2 SCR 802.

284. See Tulloch, supra note 156 at 124.

285. See Elsa Kaka, "The Supreme Court of Canada's Justification of Charter Breaches and its

Effect on Black and Indigenous Communities" (2020) 4 Man LJ 117 at 124.

286. See Yunliang Meng, "Profiling Minorities: Police Stop and Search Practices in Toronto,

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287. See Mann, supra note 31; Le, supra note 46.

288. Collection of Identifying Information in Certain Circumstances - Prohibition and

Duties, O Reg 58/16.

289. See Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, NS Human Rights Commission - Independent

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290. See Slobogin, supra note 118 at 809; Tanovich, "E-Racing," supra note 234 at 911.

291. See Skolnik, "Rééquilibrer le rôle," supra note 4.

292. See Rachel Moran, "Contesting Police Credibility" (2018) 93 Wash L Rev 1339 at 1341-42. 293. See Gabriel Chin & Scott Wells, "The 'Blue Wall of Silence' as Evidence of Bias and Motive

to Lie: A New Approach to Police Perjury" (1998) 59 U Pitt L Rev 233 at 237.

294. See Tanovich, "Racial Profiling Correspondence Test," supra note 119 at 374-76; Kami

Chavis Simmons, "Body-Mounted Police Cameras: A Primer on Police Accountability vs.

Privacy" (2015) 58 How LJ 881 at 887.

295. See R v Dudhi, 2019 ONCA 665 at paras 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joms.2018.12.016

296. See Peart v Peel Regional Police Services, 2006 CanLII 37566 (Ont CA) at paras 110-11.

297. See Tanovich, "Racial Profiling Correspondence Test," supra note 119 at 374-76.

298. See Caren Myers Morrison, "Body Camera Obscura: The Semiotics of Police Video" (2017)

54 Am Crim L Rev 791 at 797.

299. See Mary D Fan, "Democratizing Proof: Pooling Public and Police Body-Camera Videos"

(2018) 96 NCL Rev 1639 at 1662-63.

300. See Daniel S Lawrence & Bryce E Peterson, "How Do Body-Worn Cameras Affect the

Amount and Makeup of Police-Initiated Activities?: A Randomized Controlled Trial in

Milwaukee, Wisconsin" (2020) 16 J Experimental Criminology 481 at 495-96. Systematic reviews caution that there are too few studies that generate heterogenous findings regarding the effects of body-worn cameras on proactive police encounters. See Cynthia Lum et al, "Body-Worn Cameras' Effects on Police Officers and Citizen Behavior: A Systematic Review" (2020) 16 Campbell Systematic Reviews 1 at 23.

301. See Bibas, "Criminal Procedure," supra note 14 at 958.

302. See Howard M Wasserman, "Police Misconduct, Video Recording, and Procedural Barriers

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303. See Akwasi Owusu-Bempah & Scot Wortley, "Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada"

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304. Ibid.

305. See Sharad Goel et al, "Combatting Police Discrimination in the Age of Big Data" (2017) 20 https://doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2017.20.2.181

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306. See Jocelyn Simonson, "Police Reform Through a Power Lens" (2021) 130 Yale LJ 778 at https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3731173

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307. See Skolnik, "Criminal Justice Reform," supra note 269 at 643.

308. On such police oversight measures, see Skolnik, "Racial Profiling," supra note 110 at 446-53. 309. See Friedman & Ponomarenko, supra note 141 at 1865-77.

310. See Rachel A Harmon, "The Problem of Policing" (2012) 110 Mich L Rev 761 at 812;

K Sabeel Rahman & Jocelyn Simonson, "The Institutional Design of Community Control" (2020) 108 Cal L Rev 679 at 701-702.

311. See Skolnik, "Rééquilibrer le rôle," supra note 4.

312. See Rahman & Simonson, supra note 310 at 701-702.

313. Ibid; Jocelyn Simonson, "The Place of 'the People' in Criminal Procedure" (2019) 119

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314. See Richard Parent & Catherine Parent, Ethics and Canadian Law Enforcement (Canadian Scholars, 2018) at 202; Kempe Ronald Hope Sr, "Civilian Oversight for Democratic Policing

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315. See e.g. Police Services Act, RSO 1990, c P.15, s 31(1).

316. See City of Toronto, "Toronto at a Glance" (last visited 26 February 2023), online:

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317. See House of Commons, "Current Members of Parliament" (last visited 26 February

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318. See Toronto (City) v Ontario (Attorney General), 2019 ONCA 732.

319. See Toronto Police Services Board, "Board Members" (last visited 26 February 2023),

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320. See Toronto Police Service, "Consultative Committees" (last visited 26 February 2023),

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321. Ibid; Simonson, "Police Reform," supra note 306 at 814.

322. See Simonson, "Police Reform," supra note 306 at 814-15.

323. For an overview of these arguments, see Philip Stenning, "Police Chiefs and Their

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324. R v Beaudry, 2007 SCC 5 at para 48 [Beaudry].

325. R v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Ex parte Blackburn, [1968] 2 WLR 893 at 902;

Stenning, "Police Chiefs," supra note 323 at 157-58 (summarizing this position).

326. Police Services Act, supra note 315, s 31(4); Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act,

SO 2019, c 1, s 38 (the equivalent of section 31 of the former Police Services Act).

327. See Kent Roach, "Balancing Police Independence and Political Responsibility for the Police:

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328. See R v Bacon, 2020 BCCA 140 at paras 44-54; Beaudry, supra note 324 at paras 44-48;

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329. See Stenning, "Police Chiefs," supra note 323 at 329; Roach, "Balancing," supra note

327 at 138-39.

330. See Simonson, "Police Reform," supra note 306 at 811.

331. Tulloch, supra note 156 at 218, recommendation 12.13.

332. See Simonson, supra note 306 at 815.

333. Ibid.

334. See Police Services Act, supra note 315, s 31(1)(c); Toronto Police Services Board, "Process

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335. See Beaudry, supra note 324 at para 45. See also R v Jageshur, 2002 CanLII 45116 (Ont CA)

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336. See Bibas, "Plea Bargaining," supra note 206 at 2519; Paciocco, supra note 248 at 51-52. 337. Canada, Department of Justice Research and Statistics Division, Assessing the Effectiveness

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338. See Jay Albanese, Organized Crime in Our Times (Anderson, 2011) at 291.

339. See e.g. Jonathan Abel, "Cops and Pleas: Police Officers' Influence on Plea Bargaining"

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340. See Elizabeth Pollman & Jordan M Barry, "Regulatory Entrepreneurship" (2017) 90 S Cal L

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341. See Roy Shapira, "Reputation through Litigation: How the Legal System Shapes Behavior by Producing Information" (2016) 91 Wash L Rev 1193 at 1237

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342. See Richard L Marcus, "The Discovery Confidentiality Controversy" [1991] U Ill L

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343. See Dustin B Benham, "Tangled Incentives: Proportionality and the Market for Reputation

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