Policing in whitechapel
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- Policing In Whitechapel
- H Division
- It had 500 ordinary constables
- Constables who went on the beat had to patrol a certain route of whitechapel
- Regularly had to report to their sergeants and record everything in diaries
- Constables who went on the beat had to patrol a certain route of whitechapel
- 37 sergeants
- 27 inspectors
- 1 chief inspector and
- It had 500 ordinary constables
- Problems H Division Faced
- Attitudes towards the police
- Police were mistrusted by most of the community
- few people helped the police with investigations
- Police were frequently attacked
- The Environment
- Lots of smog. Which meant they couldn't see and crime was more likely to be committed.
- Whitechapel was full of dark narrow alleyways and courts which led to rookeries packed with people
- Attacks on Jews
- Large scale Jewish immigration in the 1800s meant attacks on Jewish people were common.
- Gangs
- Large gangs of theives practically ran whitechapel and scared many people into paying money to the them
- Protection Brackets
- Gangs demanded money to protect local business
- Refusal of payment led to property damage and violence
- Prostitution
- Few jobs were available to women so many turned to prostitution
- by 1888, there were 1200 prostitutes, who were vulnerable to violence and worked in brothels or on the streets
- Alcohol
- Drunkenness fuelled violence and led to brawls
- Attitudes towards the police
- H Division
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