Gotham City is one of the most crime-infested cities in comic books and despite Batman's continual attempts to rid the city of crime, he isn't making much progress, because it turns out the only character who truly knows how to fix crime in Gotham is The Sandman.

Despite decades of trying to rid Gotham City of violent crime, the city hasn't seen much improvement. Batman has been fighting crime for almost one hundred years at this point, but violent criminals like The Penguin, Killer Croc, Two-Face, or worst of all, The Joker continue to kill innocent civilians and plague his city. There have been dozens of explanations for why Gotham City never seems to get better, from the fact Gotham is literally cursed, to the fact Arkham Asylum makes criminals, instead of curing them. But the fact Gotham sees so many homicides per year might actually be due to something else,...