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Whitechapel (Reasons for tension (Results (Tensions over housing and jobs,…
Whitechapel
Reasons for tension
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Population
Fluctuated, leading to temporary residents who had little interest in community
Eastern Europeans
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Stuck together, leading to segregation
Results
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Jewish immigrants would accept less pay, and worse conditions - boosted the sweatshop system
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'Foreigners' blamed for crimes, and being violent revolutionaries
Reasons for high crime
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Overcrowding led to tensions, especially between Irish and Jewish immigrants
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Policing
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Problems
The Enviroment
Dark, narrow alleyways/rookeries made chasing and finding criminals difficult
Gangs
These were large, professional, and well-trained at both committing and escaping the crime
Prostitution
Women often turned to prostitution, becoming vunerable to violence, working in brothels or the streets
Attacks on Jews
Police were anti-Semetic, and the language barrier prevented them helping
Alcohol
Easily available due to the large number of pubs etc. Fueled crime, as alcoholics turned to violence
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Violent Demonstrations
Protests were common - led to violence, and required lots of police present
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Investigative policing
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Problems
Overlapping police forces led to clashes between them (esp. in Whitechapel) e.g. between the CID and the MET
Improvements
Bertillion system recorded photographs etc of suspects, and stored centrally
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The Media
Although it encouraged people, it led to increased hoax letters and theories on the identity
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Led to more violence, discrimination and attacks against foreigners
Housing
Slum areas - rookeries
Overcrowded, poor sanitation (John Snow)
Peabody housing estate
Opened in 1881, with reasonable rents
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Provision for the poor
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After 1880, orphans were cared for in Barnardo's, which had better conditions
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Unemployment
An economic depressions forced people into low-payed, long hours of factory 'sweated' trades
Many also worked manually on the railways or dockyards - better paid, but varied enormously due to the unreliable demand
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