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Who waas the met police?

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Government directed police force

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The requirements for the met police

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Had to be 5”7+
Carry out foot patrols 4-10 miles a day

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3
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Who was Sir Charles Warren

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A commissioner and formal army General appointed in 1886

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4
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What werr prisoners told

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Hard labour, hard fare and hard board

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What did Warren do in 1887?

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Ban a unemployment protest due for 13th Nov 1887

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6
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What happened after Warren’s ban?

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Protesters ignored the ban and Warren deployed police along with 1000 soldiers, many injured and one died

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Why did Warren lose his job?

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Failure to catch Jack the Ripper

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8
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When was pentonville prison built

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1842

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9
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How long did prisoners spend in separate cells

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23 hours a day

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What was the ‘ beat ‘?

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Constables would patrol a set route of streets to deter crime

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What were the living conditions like?

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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

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12
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When was the Criminal Investigation Department set up?

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1878

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What did these bad conditionsn lead to?

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High levels of mental illness
Eg depression, psychosis and high suicide rates.

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14
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What was the lower classes opinions on the Met

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That they only worked for the upper or middle class

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15
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When die public executions stop

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1868

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16
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What were lodging housed?

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Lodgers paid nightly fee for bed and access to a kitchen. A quarter of Whitechapel population lived in lodging houses

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17
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Why werr american colonies not used anymore?

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War of independance 1783

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18
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What is a rookery?

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Slum areas where most housing was located, extremely overcrowded with poor sanitatian

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What was the peabody estate?

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11 blocks of flats opened to combat lodging houses

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20
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Who were the tolpuddle martyrs

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Farm laborours in dorset village called tolpuddle

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21
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What was there an old law on made by the government?

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Sailors were not allowed to swear an oath

22
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Where did young orphans go after 1880?

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Barnardos homes

23
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What did george loveless do?

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He asked for higher wages

24
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What did the labourers set up?

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Friendly party/society

25
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How many years did loveless and the others get sentenced to australia

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7 years

26
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What were some causes for crime in Whitechapel?

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Overcrowding, low income levels, unreliable work and high levels of prostitution.

27
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Why did Irish immigrants move to London and when

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1840s, wanted to go to USA but ended up in London

28
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Why were executions not effective?

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They were breeding grounds for crime + very disorganised.

29
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Where did most of the Irish work?

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Navvies (labourers who built roads, railways or canals) or dockers

30
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What were the Irishs rep?

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Drunk and violent, terrorists (fenians)

31
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What were peoples opi ions on the government for treating the tolpuddle martyrs so badly

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They didnt like it much and so 100000 people occurred campaigning against the governemnt

32
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What were most policemens backgrounds?

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Farming and labour

33
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Why did many Russian and Polish Jews come to Britain in the 1880s?

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They were fleeing persecution after Tsar Alexander IIs assassination in 1881

34
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Hat happened in 1842 to do with scotland yard

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16 officers were set up in scotland yard as plain clothes detectives

35
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What did John Howard and Elizabeth Fry do?

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Work to reform prisons

36
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When were women recruited

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1920s

37
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What was the H division?

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Constables given a set route in Whitechapel to patrol, regularly had to report to their sergeant and recorded everything in diary.

38
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When we the police training college set up?

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1947

39
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What has new technology led to in the police?

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More specialised divisions

40
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When were the Whitechapel murders?

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Autumn 1888

41
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What was set up in 1901 in the police

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Fingerprints branch in scotland yard

42
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What police force had a rivalry with the Met police?

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City of London police

43
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When was homosexuality illegal until

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1967, but the person bad to be 21+

44
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Whitechapel overlapped…

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Both the city of London police force and the Met police.

45
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How were Jack the Rippers victims murdered?

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Strangled and mutilated

46
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What was the problem with the media during the Whitechapel murders?

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They encouraged people to come forward to them causing hoax letters and theories which all had to be investigated.

47
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Media coverage also stirred up… because….

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Racial hatred, media convinced English man could not of committed such awful crimes

48
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What was the vigilance committee?

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A group of people who took law into their own hands

49
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What did the Met police do for evidence?

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Took photos of bodies (but not of crime)

50
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What was the problem with flower and Dean Street?

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902 lodgers in 31 doss houses, streets only 16ft wide

51
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Qhen was the jack the ripper cases

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31st August-9th novermber 1888

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