Batman is an idiot.

Thinking about Montreal and about how the same mob friendly mayor just got elected once again by a city that simply doesn’t care about crumbing infrastructure and shitty health care and rampant corruption in every single area of the public sector, I came to the conclusion that Batman is an idiot.

See, Gotham city is a lot like Montreal only not quite as dirty, squalid, and infested with criminality. Batman's solution, however, is always to treat the symptoms, not the cause of these problems. He shouldn't be out there on the streets dealing with crime on a case by case basis, what he should be doing is trying to eliminate the major players who are moving in the drugs and moving out the money. If he started from the top and worked his way down then he would be preventing more crimes more efficiently.

See, if he just slinks around at night, waiting for opportunity to strike, which is what he mostly seems to be doing when he can't think of anything else to do with his time (which is often), he can maybe save one rape victim and one or two victims of a robbery, mugging, or what-have-you, over the course of a single night's work. This leaves the possibility that, since his rescues are mostly by circumstance, he misses most crimes and could potentially spend a night or a lot of nights just missing lots of crimes and not having anything to do but sit around picking his ass and looking nasty.

Even when he's fighting super-villains, it's not like he ever has any plan of attack or special idea what he's doing. He mostly just waits around until they try something idiotic and then responds to it, allowing them to make the mistakes that will get them caught. If he actually bothered to come up with a plan in advance one time maybe he would save Gotham City yet another insane clean-up bill. I mean, how much do you think it cost the taxpayers to rebuild their entire transit system after he trashed it in the second last movie just so he could kill his old master, Raz-al-Gul? Hey Batman, maybe your plan should have been to also rescue the monorail so people could get to work the next day, asshole.

Batman is so powerful and sneaky, and he gets this amazing power from operating outside the law. He should use this power to go into corporate offices and governmental offices and so on and straighten out the corrupt with out the fear of repercussion that (for example) plagues the people who work in municipal politics in Montreal.