Whitechapel

What was it like?
1. Area of poverty
2. Lots of different type of people
3. Overcrowded
4. People in a lot of transit
5. Key areas
  1. Flower & Dean street
    1. 902 lodgers staying in the 31 'doss houses' on this street
    2. very old - dated back to 1600
    3. 16 ft wide
    4. outside toilets
    5. home to thieves, drunkards, & prostitutes
    6. 'vicious semi-criminal' area - CB
  2. Whitechapel work house
    1. available to those who were too young, old, or unwell to work
    2. strict - dictated what people ate,& how & when they worked
    3. Families separated
    4. parents only allowed to see children once a day
  3. Peabody estate
    1. Offered affordable rates
    2. improved ventilation
    3. more pleasant
    4. too high rate for the area
  4. 10 Bells Pub
    1. A lot of people drank here, which made them more likely to commit crimes
    2. Prostitutes
    3. Pick pockets
    4. Place to get a warm meal
  5. Casual ward
    1. took in people who were sick
    2. had 400 inmates but only 60 beds
    3. strict
    4. work for their bed
    5. Pick oakum (rope) so they wouldn't want to stay
6. Charles Booth
  1. Successful business man
  2. Sociological research
    1. Employed 80 researchers
    2. Explored poverty, living conditions, & faith
    3. Interviewed policemen & school board visitors
  3. MAP
fear of crime
1. 'residuum' - natural criminals
2. Lodging houses & pubs
  1. overcrowding & unhealthy living would cause criminal activity
  2. addiction to alcohol caused crime
    1. & allowed people to become victims
3. Immigration
  1. Why was there immigration?
    1. jobs
    2. cheap places to sleep
    3. communities of similar people
  2. due to language barriers & cultural differences, jews were often segregated
    1. led to prejudice
4. socialism & anarchism
  1. people thought those who believed in this were more violent.
Metropolitan Police
1. Public attitudes
  1. People thought it was a way for the government to spy on them
  2. people attacked them
    1. A stabbing of a policemen was deemed as justifiable due to the tactics they used
2. set up in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel
3. paid for by local london authorities
4. controlled by home secretary
5. Commissioners & the home security
  1. Edmund Henderson
    1. 1870
    2. accused of relaxed police discipline - allowed them to grow beards & reduce military drills
    3. forced to resign in 1886
  2. Trial of the detectives
    1. uncovered corruption of police
    2. Thomas Titley
      1. forced to break the law by the police
    3. made people suspicious of the police
  3. Charles Warren
    1. tried to raise standards
    2. focus on military discipline
      1. made people worry the police was becoming an army
    3. bad press reaction
Policing
1. H division
  1. 505 policemen for 176,000 people
    1. 1 for every 390
2. Recruits
  1. 21-32 years
  2. 5"9'+
  3. no more than 2 children
  4. can't own a trade
  5. read & write
  6. fit
  7. 3 weeks of training
  8. preferably from countryside
Details about Ripper's murders
1. victims
  1. Mary Nichols
    1. 31st August
    2. 1st victim
    3. found in bucks row
  2. Elizabeth stride & Catherine Endows
    1. ES - found 1st in Outfields Yard
    2. CE -found in Mitre square, badly mutilated, disemboweled
      1. part of apron found at goulston street
    3. same night - 30 sept
  3. Annie Chapman
    1. 8 sept
    2. tips on georges yard
    3. signs of being strangled
  4. Mary kelly
    1. 9 nov
    2. happened inside
How did police try to catch the ripper?
1. Observation
  1. keeping the area clear of onlookers so no evidence was tampered with
  2. Inspector to make careful note of the scene
  3. wasn't always possible due to lack of light
2. photos & sketches
  1. of the bodies & of suspects
3. autopsy
4. criminal profiling
5. interviews
  1. went to houses & businesses near the murders
  2. full-scale searches - questioned over 2,000
  3. focus on butchers & slaughter men
  4. statements written on paper
The press
1. full of criticism
2. suggestions on what to do better
  1. use bloodhounds
  2. disguise police men as prostitutes
3. sensationalised stories, exaggerated
  1. posted fake facts
    1. made people wonder why they hadt caught him yet
4. published ripper letters
5. vigilance committee
  1. 2private detectives
Metro & city
1. worked well together
  1. other divisions sent extra men to help
  2. H division learnt lots from city
    1. use of photography
2. didn't work well
  1. at risk of anti-semitic rioting met decided to rub of graffiti before camera arrived
    1. happened in cities territory

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