by R. Shawn McBride | Jul 13, 2015 | Securities Laws, Uncategorized
Broken Windows Policy – The Underlying Rationale The term “broken windows” comes from an eponymous 1982 article in The Atlantic, which asserted that unaddressed disorder encourages more disorder, followed by more serious crimes.[1] SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White, who...
by R. Shawn McBride | Jul 9, 2015 | Securities Laws, Uncategorized
Introduction In the 1990s, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton adopted a policing strategy known as “broken windows” or “quality-of-life” to combat crimes. The theory was that, when a window is broken and immediately...
