Jack The Ripper The Police Investigation - A Victorian CSI.

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.