"The police were to blame for not capturing Jack the Ripper. "Use the sources and your own knowledge to explain whether you agree with this view

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“The police were to blame for not capturing Jack the Ripper.”

Use the sources and your own knowledge to explain whether you agree with this view

‘The police were to blame for not capturing jack the ripper’. After studying all the sources, I have decided that the police were partly to blame for not capturing the ripper but the actual area he used to commit his crimes would have been very hard to police due to overcrowding, privacy and the winding narrow streets. Source H is a map of the area, which is not a very good piece of evidence, but it shows the complexity of whitechapel. This is a very reliable source as there would be no point in altering it at all. Source I is a picture of the area where Annie Chapman was killed. The picture shows the back door of the house and the surrounding houses, it shows how close and confined the houses were. It makes you believe that if the neighbors heard screams they would alert the police immediately but in real life the people were very used to hearing arguments. Also from my own knowledge I know that there would have not been any locks on the doors so it would have been easy for the ripper to disappear into the surrounding houses.

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Some of the sources support the statement whereas other does not. Some of the sources are reliable, some may have biased. For example source F is a source showing the police actually doing something to try and catch the ripper but at the same time getting it very wrong. Source E is against the statement by agreeing that whitechapel was a hard place to police, it also exaggerated it to make it seem worse, it referred to whitechapel as an ‘Apocalypse of evil’. Source D is a very good example of the kind of evidence the police had to go ...

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