Difficulties of policing- Gangs and protection rackets

What difficulties of policing did gangs and protection rackets cause? 
What was racketeering? 
Associated with organised crime. It is a crime committed through extortion or coercion. To be a racketeer is to obtain money or property from another person, usually through intimidation or force.

Racketing in Whitechapel
It was often run by well organised gangs and were most common in illegal pubs and unlicensed boxing matches 

What was a protection racket? 
A protection racket was taking money from people in exchange for agreeing not to hurt them

An example of a protection racket and why is caused problems for the police 
Within W.G Cornish detective Whitechapel memoirs it has the details of gangs threatening Jewish businesses. This caused problems as these Immigrants held a fear of the authorities due to their treatment of them in Russia where they were persecuted by the police. Therefore, they tried to sort out the issue without police involvement. This caused issues because it means there was little evidence left for the police for them to prosecute them.

Examples of gangs 
Bessarabian Tigers
Odessians

Problems caused by young people 
Some stories of groups of youths getting into fights, or stealing. However, most of the problems caused by young people were less dramatic than that. For example, gambling.

What did the police do about this? 
There were attempts to investigate. However, people were scared of gangs in case of violence towards them. Therefore, few were arrested or put on trial.

Because they were overstretched and understaffed, the H division made no attempt to shut down fights and other criminal activity in some areas of whitechapel which they would have acted upon in other neighborhoods.