Why the Police was Unable to Catch Jack the Ripper

Why the Police was Unable to Catch Jack the Ripper

There are many reasons why the police were unable to catch Jack the

ripper and one of them was that the 2 police forces at the time (The

Metropolitan police force and the City police) did not simply

cooperate with each other and they were hiding information from one

another.

Another reason why the police couldn't catch Jack the ripper is

because they were looking for a specific type of criminal, they were

looking for a man who was tall had a moustache, looked foreign and he

maybe was a butcher or a doctor. This fact really limited the line of

enquiry to the police. Elizabeth Long was the women who was thought to

have seen Jack the ripper after a murder and she described him as

''Tall, foreign looking and wearing a leather apron''. The police took

on board those statements because all of the newspapers published her

statements and kind of lead the police into that line of enquiry.

Jack the ripper killed his victims by cutting their throat this didn't

help the police because the victims could not shout out so therefore

no nearby people would hear. The police thought Jack the ripper was a

professional because he left no clues or any fingerprints after him,

which made them, think that he was a doctor or a butcher.

The police had tried everything in their quest to catch jack the

ripper they interviewed a lot of people they even sent letters to

people in their houses to contact them if there are any suspicious

characters seen by the people. This fact led to many riots because the

people were scared and whenever they saw someone suspicious a lot of

people would go and attack that particular person so the situation was

getting out of control in other words the police could not handle the

chaos which the ripper was causing. In the end the police were getting

so desperate that some police officers had to dress like prostitutes

so they can attract Jack the ripper and catch him but unfortunately