Finding it in the first place would be hard, and getting there faster than evenly-distributed squad cars would be even harder.
Then once they get there, more often than not beating an individual person up isn’t the solution - even if it’s a domestic, the victims have a way of sticking up for the abuser. Or maybe it’s a dispute and you’re not sure who the bad guy is, and you’d need some kind of court system to work it out anyway.
In real life where those problems can’t be written out, you’ve basically taken everything the police are criticised for and amplified it.
Bruce Wayne would have reduced city crime way faster by building affordable housing, and tending to the basic needs of the homeless and the disadvantaged using only the extra profit margins of his wealth.
The last movie touches on this in that there is a Wayne fund for this improving socioeconomic conditions, but every politician and mafia member has their fingers in it. Good shit. Could’ve cut the length by a good 40 minutes or so
But he literally does. The problem is that Gotham is literally fucking cursed in a way that makes people aggressive and evil. And like, I don’t think that kinda stuff would stop the Joker from bombing orphanages, or Black Mask/Penguin from running protection rackets, or stop Killer Croc from literally eating people, or stop Nigma from putting people in actual Saw traps…
Like, a good portion of Batman’s rogue gallery are people that the police CANNOT deal with. Hell, I would argue that even an entire counter-terrorism unit couldn’t deal with the bullshit the Batman rogues pull in a weekly basis.
Gordon is often the only one presented as untouched by mob money. Usually a few other younger, newer recruits that are too green to get a piece of the spoils.
Low level individual crimes wouldn’t be practical. Probably more worthwhile to try to follow more reliable organised crime or repeat offending criminals or something. Although even that wouldn’t practical as an individual without serious investigative resources and you’d still probably end up dead pretty quickly.
The only successful vigilantism is probably the online entrapment of paedophiles or something of that sort. Even that is highly questionable.
Going undercover to eventually blow the whistle could be doable, I guess. I seem to remember reading in a criminology text that there’s actually career snitches that do basically that in hopes of a reward. Which seems crazy, but whatever.
It’s not really what I think OP was thinking of, though.
Someone that fights through the layers of security guards until reaching the final boss of the CEO might change the CEO’s mind with some physical persuasion.
And what has changed since? An individual murdering one single person doesn’t change anything in the grand scheme of things. You can’t lone wolf systemic change.
I wonder how many it would take though? It’sa shame that we’ll probably never find out because even if they enact laws or taxes on wealth, I e little chance of the wealthy letting it apply to them.
Finding it in the first place would be hard, and getting there faster than evenly-distributed squad cars would be even harder.
Then once they get there, more often than not beating an individual person up isn’t the solution - even if it’s a domestic, the victims have a way of sticking up for the abuser. Or maybe it’s a dispute and you’re not sure who the bad guy is, and you’d need some kind of court system to work it out anyway.
In real life where those problems can’t be written out, you’ve basically taken everything the police are criticised for and amplified it.
Bruce Wayne would have reduced city crime way faster by building affordable housing, and tending to the basic needs of the homeless and the disadvantaged using only the extra profit margins of his wealth.
It’s unclear what effect that would have on the many costume-wearing criminals, but we can hope.
The last movie touches on this in that there is a Wayne fund for this improving socioeconomic conditions, but every politician and mafia member has their fingers in it. Good shit. Could’ve cut the length by a good 40 minutes or so
But he literally does. The problem is that Gotham is literally fucking cursed in a way that makes people aggressive and evil. And like, I don’t think that kinda stuff would stop the Joker from bombing orphanages, or Black Mask/Penguin from running protection rackets, or stop Killer Croc from literally eating people, or stop Nigma from putting people in actual Saw traps…
Like, a good portion of Batman’s rogue gallery are people that the police CANNOT deal with. Hell, I would argue that even an entire counter-terrorism unit couldn’t deal with the bullshit the Batman rogues pull in a weekly basis.
Gordon is often the only one presented as untouched by mob money. Usually a few other younger, newer recruits that are too green to get a piece of the spoils.
Commissioner Gordon is the only good cop. I respect him more than any other Batman character, even Bats himself.
This is Montoya slander.
I have no idea who that guy is 😭
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renee_Montoya
Low level individual crimes wouldn’t be practical. Probably more worthwhile to try to follow more reliable organised crime or repeat offending criminals or something. Although even that wouldn’t practical as an individual without serious investigative resources and you’d still probably end up dead pretty quickly.
The only successful vigilantism is probably the online entrapment of paedophiles or something of that sort. Even that is highly questionable.
The closest we’ve had it a green hatted man
Going undercover to eventually blow the whistle could be doable, I guess. I seem to remember reading in a criminology text that there’s actually career snitches that do basically that in hopes of a reward. Which seems crazy, but whatever.
It’s not really what I think OP was thinking of, though.
I’ve hears animal rights activists will get a job in a slaughter house to blow the whistle.
You could specialize in types of crime the cops don’t usually get involved in, like corporate wage theft.
You need lawyers to fight that, not vigilantes
Someone that fights through the layers of security guards until reaching the final boss of the CEO might change the CEO’s mind with some physical persuasion.
It’s true, this isn’t Mario and the money won’t come out just from jumping on them.
You have to hold them upside down and shake them for the money to fall out of their pockets.
What if it’s Luigi?
I was gonna say. I know one CEO that isn’t stealing anyone’s wages anymore.
And what has changed since? An individual murdering one single person doesn’t change anything in the grand scheme of things. You can’t lone wolf systemic change.
I wonder how many it would take though? It’sa shame that we’ll probably never find out because even if they enact laws or taxes on wealth, I e little chance of the wealthy letting it apply to them.
Vigilante lawyers?
This is literally Daredevil lmao
Edit: Yeah, not really vigilante but still…
Practicing law… without a license