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  • Phil Carter
    Commissioner
    • Oct 2009
    • 4270

    #1

    Impressed? By whom?

    Looking at police activity and in light of their record, I wonder which of the policemen in your opinion deserves the most credit, for a bunch of crimes that remain unsolved? Who comes out of it best?

    best wishes

    Phil
    18
    Robert Anderson
    0%
    0
    Henry Moore
    0%
    0
    James Monro
    5.56%
    1
    Melville Macnaghten
    0%
    0
    Donald Swanson
    22.22%
    4
    Walter Dew
    16.67%
    3
    Frederick Abberline
    33.33%
    6
    Thomas Arnold
    5.56%
    1
    Walter Andrews
    0%
    0
    None of the above
    33.33%
    6
    Chelsea FC. TRUE BLUE. 💙


    Justice for the 96 = achieved
    Accountability? ....
  • Sam Flynn
    Casebook Supporter
    • Feb 2008
    • 13333

    #2
    Evans & Rumbelow



    plus Trevor Marriott
    Last edited by Sam Flynn; 01-08-2010, 02:28 AM. Reason: rectified a glaring omission
    Kind regards, Sam Flynn

    "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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    • Tom_Wescott
      Commissioner
      • Feb 2008
      • 7001

      #3
      Certainly not Abberline. PC Smith deserves mention for being attentive enough to have provided a description of a Ripper victim with a potential killer. I don't believe this man WAS Stride's killer, but Smith's observance deserves mention.

      Yours truly,

      Tom Wescott

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      • Howard Brown
        *
        • Feb 2008
        • 770

        #4
        Inspector Reid deserves mention for not immediately rejecting Pearly Poll's position or lack therof in the Tabram murder...waiting a full 6 weeks before expressing his opinion that Poll's word was of little value to Inspector J. West....and demonstrating that the police were concerned substantially more about the crimes than many modern Ripperologists give them credit for.

        Likewise, members of H Division, for offering to provide a cash reward around the same time Samuel Montagu MP did...but with a lot less fanfare.

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        • Trevor Marriott
          Commissioner
          • Feb 2008
          • 9486

          #5
          Originally posted by Sam Flynn View Post
          Evans & Rumbelow
          Sam you disappoint me

          "The truth is still out there"

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          • Phil Carter
            Commissioner
            • Oct 2009
            • 4270

            #6
            Originally posted by Howard Brown View Post
            Inspector Reid deserves mention for not immediately rejecting Pearly Poll's position or lack therof in the Tabram murder...waiting a full 6 weeks before expressing his opinion that Poll's word was of little value to Inspector J. West....and demonstrating that the police were concerned substantially more about the crimes than many modern Ripperologists give them credit for.

            Likewise, members of H Division, for offering to provide a cash reward around the same time Samuel Montagu MP did...but with a lot less fanfare.
            Howard,

            That is why I put in "none of the above" in the poll...deliberately with the names mentioned above, leaving out others.

            best wishes

            Phil
            Chelsea FC. TRUE BLUE. 💙


            Justice for the 96 = achieved
            Accountability? ....

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            • Tom_Wescott
              Commissioner
              • Feb 2008
              • 7001

              #7
              I just realized this was a poll and not just a thread. ha ha. I don't think I can vote on those choices, though.

              Yours truly,

              Tom Wescott

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              • Sam Flynn
                Casebook Supporter
                • Feb 2008
                • 13333

                #8
                Originally posted by Trevor Marriott View Post
                Sam you disappoint me
                A thousand apologies, Trevor! How could I have forgotten?

                I'll go back and amend my original post immediately!
                Kind regards, Sam Flynn

                "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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                • Sam Flynn
                  Casebook Supporter
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 13333

                  #9
                  I decided to vote for Swanson. He had a big job on his hands, seems to have acquitted himself well, and appears to have been very thorough in his work.

                  I suspect, however, that the real answer lies among the unsung, and largely unnamed, chaps at ground level.
                  Kind regards, Sam Flynn

                  "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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                  • joelhall
                    Detective
                    • Mar 2008
                    • 485

                    #10
                    i think the city police did a far better job on the mitre square murder than the met did on all of the others combined.
                    if mickey's a mouse, and pluto's a dog, whats goofy?

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                    • Trevor Marriott
                      Commissioner
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 9486

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Sam Flynn View Post
                      A thousand apologies, Trevor! How could I have forgotten?

                      I'll go back and amend my original post immediately!
                      I knew you were beginning to see the light !!!!!!!!!! Just a matter of time before the multitudes start to cross over

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                      • Ally
                        WWotW
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 2554

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Trevor Marriott View Post
                        I knew you were beginning to see the light !!!!!!!!!! Just a matter of time before the multitudes start to cross over
                        Well the majority of the multitudes are dumber than rocks so I wouldn't be surprised.

                        Let all Oz be agreed;
                        I need a better class of flying monkeys.

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                        • DVV
                          Suspended
                          • Apr 2008
                          • 6014

                          #13
                          Why is Edmund Reid missing ?
                          Grrrr...

                          I vote Dew. For Emma.

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                          • Sox
                            Detective
                            • Feb 2008
                            • 242

                            #14
                            Abberline ftw !!!
                            protohistorian-Where would we be without Stewart Evans or Paul Begg,Kieth Skinner, Martin Fido,or Donald Rumbelow?

                            Sox-Knee deep in Princes & Painters with Fenian ties who did not mutilate the women at the scene, but waited with baited breath outside the mortuary to carry out their evil plots before rushing home for tea with the wife...who would later poison them of course

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                            • Dave James
                              Constable
                              • Dec 2009
                              • 56

                              #15
                              Who did best

                              Originally posted by joelhall View Post
                              i think the city police did a far better job on the mitre square murder than the met did on all of the others combined.
                              I think I have to agree, but...
                              How do think they would have coped with the whole series?

                              It would certainly have given Henry Smith more to elaborate on!

                              All the best
                              Dave
                              When you talk to god it's praying; when god talks to you its schizophrenia! - X-Files

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