Whitechapel Flashcards
Who waas the met police?
Government directed police force
The requirements for the met police
Had to be 5”7+
Carry out foot patrols 4-10 miles a day
Who was Sir Charles Warren
A commissioner and formal army General appointed in 1886
What werr prisoners told
Hard labour, hard fare and hard board
What did Warren do in 1887?
Ban a unemployment protest due for 13th Nov 1887
What happened after Warren’s ban?
Protesters ignored the ban and Warren deployed police along with 1000 soldiers, many injured and one died
Why did Warren lose his job?
Failure to catch Jack the Ripper
When was pentonville prison built
1842
How long did prisoners spend in separate cells
23 hours a day
What was the ‘ beat ‘?
Constables would patrol a set route of streets to deter crime
What were the living conditions like?
Walls were thick to stop communicatiom
Prisoners worked in their cells
Only allowed out for a short period of time but could not speak or see one another
When was the Criminal Investigation Department set up?
1878
What did these bad conditionsn lead to?
High levels of mental illness
Eg depression, psychosis and high suicide rates.
What was the lower classes opinions on the Met
That they only worked for the upper or middle class
When die public executions stop
1868
What were lodging housed?
Lodgers paid nightly fee for bed and access to a kitchen. A quarter of Whitechapel population lived in lodging houses
Why werr american colonies not used anymore?
War of independance 1783
What is a rookery?
Slum areas where most housing was located, extremely overcrowded with poor sanitatian
What was the peabody estate?
11 blocks of flats opened to combat lodging houses
Who were the tolpuddle martyrs
Farm laborours in dorset village called tolpuddle
What was there an old law on made by the government?
Sailors were not allowed to swear an oath
Where did young orphans go after 1880?
Barnardos homes
What did george loveless do?
He asked for higher wages
What did the labourers set up?
Friendly party/society
How many years did loveless and the others get sentenced to australia
7 years
What were some causes for crime in Whitechapel?
Overcrowding, low income levels, unreliable work and high levels of prostitution.
Why did Irish immigrants move to London and when
1840s, wanted to go to USA but ended up in London
Why were executions not effective?
They were breeding grounds for crime + very disorganised.
Where did most of the Irish work?
Navvies (labourers who built roads, railways or canals) or dockers
What were the Irishs rep?
Drunk and violent, terrorists (fenians)
What were peoples opi ions on the government for treating the tolpuddle martyrs so badly
They didnt like it much and so 100000 people occurred campaigning against the governemnt
What were most policemens backgrounds?
Farming and labour
Why did many Russian and Polish Jews come to Britain in the 1880s?
They were fleeing persecution after Tsar Alexander IIs assassination in 1881
Hat happened in 1842 to do with scotland yard
16 officers were set up in scotland yard as plain clothes detectives
What did John Howard and Elizabeth Fry do?
Work to reform prisons
When were women recruited
1920s
What was the H division?
Constables given a set route in Whitechapel to patrol, regularly had to report to their sergeant and recorded everything in diary.
When we the police training college set up?
1947
What has new technology led to in the police?
More specialised divisions
When were the Whitechapel murders?
Autumn 1888
What was set up in 1901 in the police
Fingerprints branch in scotland yard
What police force had a rivalry with the Met police?
City of London police
When was homosexuality illegal until
1967, but the person bad to be 21+
Whitechapel overlapped…
Both the city of London police force and the Met police.
How were Jack the Rippers victims murdered?
Strangled and mutilated
What was the problem with the media during the Whitechapel murders?
They encouraged people to come forward to them causing hoax letters and theories which all had to be investigated.
Media coverage also stirred up… because….
Racial hatred, media convinced English man could not of committed such awful crimes
What was the vigilance committee?
A group of people who took law into their own hands
What did the Met police do for evidence?
Took photos of bodies (but not of crime)
What was the problem with flower and Dean Street?
902 lodgers in 31 doss houses, streets only 16ft wide
Qhen was the jack the ripper cases
31st August-9th novermber 1888
