This twke on batman comes up a lot and I think it misses some points. Obviously most the points mentioned in this thread don't apply to thr comics, where batman's fantastical abilities are fantastical.

We can't know for certain how "The Batman" will handle this, but wd know https://twitter.com/StorySlug/status/1297996912822493196

How the Nolan movies handled this, and honestly that's really the only "dark and gritty" series of batman movies to exist(ignoring the burton films. They were the darkest batman take at their time, but still really goofy).

The only difference between batman and the police aren't merely his tools. This thread acts like any old gotham cop is essentially as strong as batman if he tried, but the nolan batman was trained by a secretive order of nija assasins.

The tech he uses is beyond just militarized, but that is probably the best point in the thread.

But at the end of thr day this gritty batman doesn't represent what the police could get done "if only we let them".

Nolan's batman is forced into action precisely because

Law enforcement in gotham city is functionally ineffective sue to rampant corruption. A major point in the first moive is that this influence was so strong bruce could be murdered in plain view with no consequence.

In the dark knight a major theme throughout the film is that the corruption is so bad literally no aspect of the police force wad untouched causing multiple plans to fail and ultimately leading to Rachel's death

Batman isn't getting results just because he's besting people up or doing things cops can't(although that is something he is doing). He's getting results because the police force literally aren't trying to get results. And the ones that are trying are handicapped

By the ones who dont want to get results.its not like these movies show batman only helping by doing illegal activities, hes also depicted provided support(innoculations to hallucinagins, irridiating bills for the police to track etc)

Anyway, nothing wrong with the story take but I just dont feel like this deconstruction of batman really fits and it definitely doesn't seem to the fit the Nolan films which are basically the dark and grim movie take we have.