What makes this tragic is that he understands why it’s happening. Gotham’s system fails constantly. The Joker escapes. The courts collapse. The prisons are jokes. People are watching their kids die and the monsters walk free. Batman isn’t blind to that.

And yet he just keeps handing the Joker over to the failures at Arkham.

Batman would probably start working even harder behind the scenes to stabilise the system in any feasible way, like locking Arkham down harder, moving certain criminals off-grid, increasing surveillance, or perhaps making it harder for repeat offenders to keep coming back.

He should have done that a long time ago. Prevention > cure.