Batman: World's Best Psychiatrist?

So, I was watching one of the best action cartoons of all time,
Batman: the Animated Series, on Amazon Prime last night
and I came across the episode "Baby Doll."
Allow me to recap it for you as your memory of it may be hazy.

The episode follows a former child actress
who has a physical condition that doesn't allow her to age.
Basically, she's stuck looking like a 5 year old.
As she grew older, she wanted more adult roles;
however, no one took her seriously because of her condition.
She also struggled with romantic relationships because of this.
Eventually she turns her frustrations into a life of crime
and ends up kidnapping her TV family.
By the end of the episode, Batman tracks her down
and they run into a funhouse of mirrors.
While Batman uses the darkness and mirrors to his advantage,
he allows BabyDoll to have her moment
as she sees what she should look like as an adult woman in a mirror.

She proceeds to breakdown shouting that nothing is real as she shoots every mirror attempting to kill Batman. "Why can't you just let me make-believe?" she asks. Then she comes back to her "adult" mirror and shoots the woman she will never look like.
She cries as she tries to shoot her gun, but alas no more bullets. At this time, Batman walks up to her and simply consoles her.
She hugs his legs and says, "I didn't mean to."
End episode.

Besides that being an emotional ass episode,
it made me realize something about Batman,
something I truly appreciated about that show as a kid.
For the majority of the series,
Batman wasn't out to kick the asses of the criminals in Gotham.
He was out to rehabilitate them.
Yes, sometimes force was necessary, but non-lethal force.
He knew that every criminal - from petty thief up to the Joker -
did what they did for a reason, no matter how twisted the reason may be.

The reason why Batman never kills the Joker is because
while pursuing him in his early criminal days,
the Joker (then the Red Hood) fell into a vat of chemicals
that changed his appearance and drove him insane.
Mr Freeze's end goal is usually building a world in which
he can rejoin his wife, who is terminally ill and cryogenically frozen.
Harley Quinn suffers from a case of severe Stockholm Syndrome
and is stuck in an abusive relationship with the Joker.
You're beginning to see the trend here.

I mean, come on.
That's why more than half of Batman's "nemeses" end up in Arkham Asylum.

I remember one episode of Batman: the Animated Series
where he visits a drug lord
and reveals to him how his ways have affected his son,
who had become addicted to his father's own supply.
The guy basically shut up shop after that.

Batman has no need to kill.
His goal is never to punish criminals;
it's to help them become successful members of society again.
Yes, he adopted the bat to scare his enemies,
but underneath the Dark Knight is a ray of light.

I totally understand why movie studios decided
to take Batman in a darker, more brutal direction.
But removing the camp stripped away his humanity in a way.
His only humane moment seemed to occur when he tried
to help Harvey Dent/TwoFace remain on the right path.
Or when he constantly tried to win Catwoman over to his side
instead of turning her in like the criminal she was.
Hmm... maybe they did manage to keep his humane side intact.

Man, if a guy like Batman can handle intense situations like
that without resorting to lethal violence,
I wonder why the standard police force in our country
can't be more tactful and understanding
while performing their civil duties?
The world may never know...
Word.