Blaming the Police for Failing to Catch Jack the Ripper
In 1880s the police force were very much in its infancy, such things
as forensics, DNA, finger printing were not available at that time.
The only tools available to the police were very primitive; in fact,
the only tools were post mortems, door-to-door enquiries, photography
(which was extremely basic) and having witnesses. The police was only
really set up for crime prevention. Other problems faced was the fact
that the police were seen as favouring the middle class, Because of
the bloody Sunday riots where the police got too violent with a crowd
of protesters protesting against the unemployment. This would have
made it extremely difficult at policing White Chapel
There were many points in the ripper investigation where it has been
suggested that the police were to be blamed for the failure in
capturing jack the ripper. Such points were the abuse of evidence and
the failure to cooperate between the city police and the metropolitan
police. An example of this was on the night of the "night double
murders" Eddoes apron was found by a constable by a graphitised door
reading "the Juwes are the men are The men That Will not be blamed for
nothing". This message could have been written by the ripper himself,
city police wanted to photograph this but Warren (from the
metropolitan police) felt that waiting until there was enough light to
be photographed might have caused anti-Semitic riots against those
Jews living in the area whom English residence already suspected. It
is believed that on the whole most of the two police force worked well
together, but there is still evidence that more senior officers did
not. Did the failure of the two police forces result in the killer
walking free? Most sources do not fault either force of failing to
solve the ripper murders; even by today's standards this case would
have been extremely challenging.
Another point that the police were to blame for the failure to capture
jack the ripper was that they wasted a lot of time in following up
Investigating Why the Police Were Unable to Catch Jack the Ripper I believe the most important reason why Jack the Ripper was so hard to catch was because of the lack of evidence. In those days they did not have as advanced technology as we have today for instance, we have forensics where we can tell from a strand of hair who that hair belongs to. In those days they were only just learning the significance of footprints to catching a villain. Another part to this is that Jack the Ripper was so random towards who he killed the police could not find a link between the murders except that they were all prostitutes, which did not really help, although prostitute murders were not terribly uncommon. The press coverage to the case didn’t help much as they had forced the police to investigate ‘Leather Apron’ and this wasted a significant amount of the police time which, if spent properly, may have allowed them to uncover more information needed to catch the Ripper.
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