If we're being serious Batman would've had to increase labor union membership and increase taxes because inequality drives crime way more than poverty does https://twitter.com/RebeccaRennerFL/status/1291139631732359168

Poverty-crime link is widely believed but it just isn't true. Costa Rica for instance is way poorer than any major US city but has very little crime, but most places with high gini coefficient have lots of crime.

"Our estimates indicate that a one-point increment in the Gini coefficient between 2007 and 2010 translates into an increase of more that 36% in the number of drug-related homicides per 100,000 inhabitants" https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/deveco/v120y2016icp128-143.html

I'm trying to make a serious point here but in Batman were any of the villains even poor? I think mostly they were social outcasts or wronged by something not economic.