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In this video we compare the Victorian police investigation into the Jack the Ripper cries with a modern day scene of crime investigation.
An accusation that is often levelled at the 19th century police officers investigated the Whitechapel murders is that they were incompetent and they bungled the investigation, thus enabling Jack the Ripper to escape justice.
This simply wasn't the case. Yes, there were things that they got wrong and things that they most certainly could have done better, but, as you will see as we delve into the techniques they used and the expertise they possessed, there activities at the scenes of the crimes wasn't that far removed from a modern day investigation.
Obviously, the likes of Inspectors Reid and Abberline, and the other detectives who worked on the case, were hampered by a lack of technology that we take for granted in a modern day CSI.
Forensics, criminal profiling, CCTV, even fingerprinting were not utilised in a 19th century murder investigation - but, as we argue in the video, would any of these have helped in the case of a random and opportunist killer such as Jack the Ripper was?
The fact is that, given the resources available to them at the time, the 19th century detectives conducted thorough inquiries into the murders, and the fact they didn't catch Jack the Ripper was more to do with luck on his part than of incompetence on their part.