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We can also ask - and hopefully answer - the question why didn't the police catch Jack the Ripper?

We can analyze the methods that the police used to try and track the killer and compare them with the methods that the police would use today. As a result of official reports and the efforts of journalists to keep abreast of the progress (or, perhaps, more accurately, lack of progress) that the police investigation was making, we are able watch that investigation unfolding.

The Whitechapel murders were the focus of a huge criminal investigation that saw the Victorian police pit their wits against a lone assassin who was perpetrating his crimes in one of 19th century London's most densely populated and crime ridden quarters.