'Why were the police unable to catch Jack the Ripper?\r'

'There atomic number 18 several factors that can be used for why the murderer was never caught, firstly:\r\nThere were no witnesses, whether this was part of the murderers plan, to find somebody without quite a little, or to execute them somewhere isolated whence dump their torso elsewhere is unknown. It could be accounted to luck that there were no witnesses, and the people who did come forward to give reason gave several different descriptions, which contradicted each a nonher(prenominal). If there was soulfulness who witnessed the murder, maybe he would consider been caught.\r\nThe victims were prostitutes; people who comm altogether avoided the patrol some(prenominal)way. They were easy victims for several reasons. Firstly, they had a perilous profession anyway, they risked world beaten up and hit e truly night, so maybe with a ordered sea wolf out their, they didnt see their chances as any lower or any higher of being murdered. They also really needed the coin, to risk deviation out every night, they were very poor, so they dormant went out. They would take clients to a place that was isolated from new(prenominal) people, it do it easier for the murder, as noone would hear them, and there would be no witnesses. Also prostitutes were often drunk and dangerous anyway, making them easier to silence.\r\nBecause the killer did not know his victims, it made it harder to solve. It is the same case today with the Washington Sniper. If you commit people you have no connection with, then there is no way to relate you to them. You cannot occupy other friends or family about other people they knew in their life who might kill them, or who is suspicious. It gives the constabulary no link, so they dont have ofttimes to follow up on. Other than he was cleanup prostitutes, and there were hundreds in London.\r\nAlso, this was one of the first expectant cases detectives of a poorer area (Whitechapel) had to deal with, their usual methods includ e rounding up suspicious looking suspects, and patrolling the poorer areas. This was obviously not going to work in this case. Because the Ripper had to merge in, if he wanted prostitutes to go with him. Also, the Rippers gruesome mutilation was not what the police were used to dealing with, it was not a domestic murder case, therefore they had no leads, only if the Ripper was striking at random prostitutes, therefore they had no idea where he could be.\r\nThere was also a big money of misleading inference. There were hundreds of letters send in claiming to be from Jack the Ripper. Only 3 of which are considered to be anywhere near liable. twain of which are from the same person, staring with â€Å"Dear pigeonhole” for these two letters, it could have been sent in flat after reading the newspaper, or made up from a journalist exhausting to promote the story. The other one however, came with half a kidney, that looked correspondingly to be taken from one of the vict ims. Other false leads like Leather Apron were also off-putting.\r\nThe anti-semantic writing on the wall, found near Catherine Eddowess body, could have also have been a great help, or a disaster. If it was a clue, it was wiped off the wall, and therefore they could not use it to equalize handwriting. Or it could be false, leading to riots. The Jews in the gone had been blamed for a lot of murders, as they were wide disliked, but still held a lot of money and power in general. Any mention of the killer being Jewish would have lead to riots, which the police did not want on top of trying to catch the killer.\r\nIt can be said they did their outflank using what evidence they had. There was no forensic evidence, finer prints were not used until 1901, there was no desoxyribonucleic acid evidence, and photography in this case had only just started, it made the polices job finding evidence difficult with so little of anything to go on. If they had had DNA evidence, more accurate recor ds of criminals and better security (cameras in the streets) then maybe he would have been caught. except because of limited evidence, of the killer leaving no weapons behind, and vestments and possession were later accounted for, the police had little to go on.\r\nThe police were also under a lot of pressure from the press and politicians. With the press thinking up of one story after other, it maybe gave the police excessively many useless leads that wasted their time. The media was incessantly bombarding the police force: their usual methods were slow, and not very effective. However now, they were under pressure to catch someone, they had to further things up, which would have resulted in several wrong suspects, and evidence. They were anticipate by the general to catch the ripper, after 5 murders that were not prevented after heightened security from the police, it made the universe and media put more pressure on.\r\nThe killings stopped, there are several hazard reas ons for this. However, if the murders had continued, it is entirely feasible that someone would have eventually caught him, with so few prostitutes on the street, and so many metropolitan police.\r\nSome suspected reasons are:\r\nThe police were getting to near to catching him, to risky to carry on.\r\nHe died, or was put behind bars for another crime. Many deaths went unreported to the police.\r\nMoved to another part of the UK, with not as good as the metropolitan police force, or just simply moved away. Or moved to another country. aft(prenominal) the ripper murders, there were several murders in America, with the same pattern. Because of no international links, noone ever linked the two together.\r\n after(prenominal) committing so many crimes and knowing the end was near, killed himself, this too would have carried no concern with the press.\r\nHe had killed plenty people. This one is most unlikely. It has been observed with other psychopaths and serial publication killers, they only stop when they have been caught, or die. It was plausibly not as much of a lecherousness as a fixation.\r\nThey caught the Ripper, but it infact was connected to the munificent family or government, and it would have been a huge public scandal, and uproar would ensure, so they never told the press, or anyone else in the police force he was caught.\r\n'