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Why the police were unable to catch Jack the ripper.
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Why were the Police Unable to Catch Jack the Ripper? In 1888, the police had to deal with the ripper murders only they weren't very successful at all; the police were unable to catch Jack the Ripper. Even to this day the devastating period of time where a series of murders occurred is unsolved. Why were the police unable to catch him? Some of these the reasons for why are listed below. Nobody in Whitechapel or in Britain as a whole had any idea of what they were dealing with when Polly Nicholls was murdered, so when the following murders happened there was massive panic and the crimes were never solved. Back in 1888 the best chances of solving a crime was to catch the criminal red handed or for someone to hand them in. Back then the police spent most of there time trying to prevent crime rather than actually solving...
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