It is mentioned Hooker has totaled 3 police cars in the past 10 months.
The car chase involving the Ford Fairmont is recycled footage from a previous season.
Todd Hunter is the son of Jeffrey Hunter, who William Shatner replaced on Star Trek after Hunter dropped out, igniting his career.
The episode's title refers to a more famous night murderer of young women in the Whitechapel section of London in 1888. The perpetrator was never identified nor caught despite his mutilation of several women which earned him the nickname "Jack the Ripper".