This was obvious hyperbole meant to express a deep frustration at having suffered at the hands of criminals in a city I care deeply about. People I love have been terrorized

Dunno about the parent poster, but I would settle for caning.

Kinky.

>FWIW, the parent poster doesn't want increased incarceration, they want these people executed (probably without due process).

that isn't just wrong -- it's not even what parent said.

Their hyperbole was pointing out that the perceived situation is so bad that it would take something drastic to turn it around, not that they in anyway wanted or desired it.

There is a lot of purposeful misinterpretation/mis-reading going on in this thread, it seems.

"It would take Ra's al Ghul to resolve the problems of this city" dereferences directly to "It would take [mass gassing the residents of Baltimore to death] to resolve the problems of this city", as Batman Begins is the scheme being referred to.

Both are hyperbole, but that is indeed what was said and implied. Defend it as rhetoric, don't gaslight it as a purposeful misreading.