Problems the police faced

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The police received 300 letters and postcards by people claiming to be the murderer This was a problem for the police because it meant that valuable police time and manpower was wasted on sifting through bogus evidence
The police investigated many leads which started in press stories, for example John Pizer was wrong be a rested after a newspaper publicised the story that the murderer was a Jew who wore a leather apron This would mean that the public would lose faith in the police and would start to criticise them. It would also waste police time because they were following up unreliable sources
Newspapers were critical of the police enquiry This would cause the public to criticise the police as many people read the newspaper and believed it.
Before forensic science, the only way to prove someone committed a murder was to catch them in the act, or get the suspect to confess This would waste police time and manpower as the police would need to patrol or try to get the suspect to confess
Newspaper articles were published about the murders. These were based on guesswork and unreliable interviews with locals, which led to false leads and red herrings This was a problem for the police because they would follow up these leads, wasting police time as they were unreliable sources.
Whitechapel had dark and narrow muddled maze-like streets This would cause a problem for the police because they would get lost in the streets wasting time and manpower
The police experimented by using Blood Hounds to track the murderer. The dogs performed well but the police failed to pay the owner who then refused to work further with the police. This would cause a problem for the police because they would have to rely on witness reports and the media which was often unreliable and left the police at a disadvantage in catching the criminal
A lack of lighting made policing the area very difficult This caused problems because it was very difficult to see and so the police couldn’t do their job properly
The press released portraits of potential suspects. They all had the features of immigrants and this led to a lot of race related crime This would cause discrimination causing the immigrants to commit crime, giving the police more work to do
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