How realistic was it for JTR to disguise himself as a PC?

[Monty]

A lot of the Policeman were very familiar on their beat and someone new showing up without an introduction probably wasn't the done thing. I can imagine Pearly Poll after a night out going up to a newby and in her loud voice shouting "ohh you're a new boy aren't ya? "Like ya uniform" wink wink nudge nudge.

Beat Constables were rotated within their sections on a 10 to 12 month rota. This to avoid familiarity.

Monty

[Wickerman]

Why kill the goose that lays the golden egg?
That's no way to run a business.

[APerno]

Same way anyone knows anything about this subject by reading about it; your using the classic cliche Ripper rebuttal, you know damn well that anything Ripper can be challenged and that nothing can be proven. You guys so over use the word "conjecture" that it has become a meaningless rebuttal! -- But with that said, it doesn't matter if he was her pimp or boy friend, or long lost brother, what does matter, and what was my point, despite your attempt to distract from it, is that no serial killer looks a possible witness in the face and then still takes the risk of killing that victim.

[drstrange169]

>>JTR didn't kill Stride her pimp did.<<

That's pretty ground breaking information!

Can I ask who was her pimp and how do you know she was a full time prostitute in 1888, or even a casual one for that matter?

[APerno]

JTR didn't kill Stride her pimp did. Coroner Baxter is the cause of that misconception and he help Stride's murder get away. He couldn't bare being left out of the excitement so he over stepped his authority (again) and started doing what the police were suppose to be doing. Had he just did his job the way the City of London Coroner had Stride's killer might have been caught. He sent everyone down a rabbit hole and the media just couldn't resist a 'double event' it made JTR demonic, and people still want to believe what is obviously not true because it make JTR special. No serial killer has the courage to confront a possible witness the way Stride's killer did; serial killers are losers, bottom feeders, JTR would never have confronted Schwartz, if he had encounter Schwartz he would have broke off the attempt; no serial killer who knows he has been seen still kills. Serial killers are cowards, they confront no one, that why all of JTR's victims were such soft (weak) targets.

[Robert]

So JTR dressed up in one uniform for the Stride murder and then donned another one for Eddowes?

[Stacker]

Prostitutes would not try to engage with a policeman in that time period. Keep in mind that Prostitution was not exactly considered to be a legal way to make money back then.

[Scorpio]

I think it unlikely that JtR posed as a policeman. We are living in a cynical age where people are more aware of social deviants and the lengths they will go to than the Victorians. Also, a policeman would be more likely to drive away his intended targets than attract them. Jack's persona of well heeled possible client gave him all the power and anonymity he would probably want.

[RedBundy13]

Plus wouldn’t he look out of place soliciting a pros? I would think he might draw more attention than deflect it. Unless of course if he was possibly pretending to arrest the victim...

[Neil R A Bell]

Beat sergeants would patrol their areas and meet their constables at pre set times, as well as impromptu meetings.

[Abby Normal]

if the ripper was a cop or ex cop he wouldn't be doing it in uniform.

[Busy Beaver]

It would probably be the thing that if someone didn't look right, or they had no collar number/ID, then they would have been "nicked" there and then and done for impersonating a police officer. Don't think Jack was that daft. Not too sure either if anyone was done during the murders for impersonating. 50% of me thought that Jack may have been a bonafide police officer, but that's for another thread

[Joshua Rogan]

By the time of the Double Event, plenty of PCs had been drafted in from other divisions, who wouldn't have been familiar to or with the locals or even their colleagues. When PC Long found the grafitto in Goulston St it was his first night on that particular beat, possibly his first in Whitechapel. When he left a PC from a neighbouring beat to watch the building, he didn't even know his name, referring to him only by his collar number - 150H.

[Sam Flynn]

A lot of the Policeman were very familiar on their beat and someone new showing up without an introduction probably wasn't the done thing.

This may have been particularly true for the first two murders, before police numbers were boosted by large numbers of "new faces" from other Divisions.

[Busy Beaver]

A lot of the Policeman were very familiar on their beat and someone new showing up without an introduction probably wasn't the done thing. I can imagine Pearly Poll after a night out going up to a newby and in her loud voice shouting "ohh you're a new boy aren't ya? "Like ya uniform" wink wink nudge nudge.