The police were to blame for not capturing Jack the Ripper but only to a certain extent. At the time of the Jack the Ripper murders, the police force was developing and as the Jack the Ripper case started to cause speculation, the police force started to develop rapidly. The murders even sparked investigations from Scotland Yard as well as the Metropolitan Police, this meant that the case became rather crowded very quickly. The Jack the Ripper case was clearly mishandled due to the methods the police force used. The police force at the time was very inefficient and traditional which led them to be blamed for not catching Jack the Ripper. One thing that the police did do to try and capture Jack the Ripper was put more police on the beat. It
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It did cut down crime, however this may not have changed the situation on the streets, because the fog that descended onto the East End at night due to its proximity to the river Thames and the smoke coing from factories around the area due to the Industrial Revolution meant that Jack the Ripper could jump in and out of shadows. The fog just added to the poorly lit streets of Whitechapel, which was a great advantage for the Ripper. The police also tried to catch him by committing to door-to-door enquiries. But, many of the things the police would do were futile as they had not ever come across a murderer such as Jack the Ripper before and they did not know how to go about catching a man who was intelligent enough to essentially disect a human body and find somebody's organs yet hide behind a front that showed him to be more of an illiterate than he actually was. Some Ripperologists believe that the killings stopped due to one of these possible factors:
⦁ Jack the Ripper died
⦁ Jack the Ripper moved abroad
⦁ Jack the Ripper was incarcerated
I believe this theory to be correct as serial killers never have nor ever will stop killing willingly for years on end and essentially disappear from the face of the earth.
Generally accepted victims:
⦁ Mary Ann Nichols - 31st August 1888,
⦁ Annie Chapman - 8th September
It did cut down crime, however this may not have changed the situation on the streets, because the fog that descended onto the East End at night due to its proximity to the river Thames and the smoke coing from factories around the area due to the Industrial Revolution meant that Jack the Ripper could jump in and out of shadows. The fog just added to the poorly lit streets of Whitechapel, which was a great advantage for the Ripper. The police also tried to catch him by committing to door-to-door enquiries. But, many of the things the police would do were futile as they had not ever come across a murderer such as Jack the Ripper before and they did not know how to go about catching a man who was intelligent enough to essentially disect a human body and find somebody's organs yet hide behind a front that showed him to be more of an illiterate than he actually was. Some Ripperologists believe that the killings stopped due to one of these possible factors:
⦁ Jack the Ripper died
⦁ Jack the Ripper moved abroad
⦁ Jack the Ripper was incarcerated
I believe this theory to be correct as serial killers never have nor ever will stop killing willingly for years on end and essentially disappear from the face of the earth.
Generally accepted victims:
⦁ Mary Ann Nichols - 31st August 1888,
⦁ Annie Chapman - 8th September