I'm tired of heroes acting like cops and only complaining about the law when they're subjected to it

Too often we see heroes, especially the typical street level vigilante, being a pseudo-cop: punching gangsters & thieves, without any authorization, and sending them to prison. And any anti-vigilante laws are strawmanned as helping criminals, but irl, those laws exist to protect our civil rights from being protected by cops & vigilantes alike. yet much fiction ignores that to present our heroes as generally infallible and always 'getting the right guy,' conveniently ignoring so much of what leads to people becoming criminals to begin with, not to mention all the problems inherent in policing & prison culture, and

and it's often a limited type of crime: the most stereotypical kinds Fox News could think of, but less often hate crimes, or environmental crimes, or corporate crime, or police violence, or even vigilante brutality (which has always been a problem in the USA and elsewhere). At least if the street levellers fought against these crimes I'd buy their whole agenda more, but if they're just going to go after the same crimes cops mostly prosecute anyways, what's the point. In fact a lot of violence crime as portrayed in action media has statistically declined since the 70s from what I read, yet is that ever reflected in these stories? Not that much, and instead urban areas are still often villainized in this archaic and outdated ways

but when the heroes themselves are subjected to rules and regulations about how they use their often unearned power, that suddenly becomes oppression! They're the victims of the government, because we all know vigilantism is a civil right/s. Sure, all the laws made to profit prisons and target marginalized communities are necessary but laws regulating the police and protecting our civil rights are suddenly oppression. I'm reminded of Marve's Civil War, which wrongly characterized the pro-registration side as fascists. That's like saying the judicial system irl is full of Nazis because police are required to get warrants before arresting people: it's ludicrous. But God forbid our heroes be told what to do while they're out there telling everyone else to, and they're not even elected or appointed!

Personally, I want to see more of these kinds of heroes fighting against the societal ills law enforcement and vigilantes don't address often enough, like environmentalism, police brutality, workers' rights, etc. I could at least believe that power fantasy instead of one mainly appealing to, frankly, middle-class White guys from the 60s & 70s. Even though I'm not a fan of Fantastic Four for other reasons, I at least appreciate their ethos of using their powers for more than just stereotypical crimefighting. Same with X-Men: even though I don't believe their metaphor is enough, they at least represent revolutionary thinking missing from Spidey, Avengers, JL, FF, etc. heck, Daredevil is a defense attorney but it seems for most of the time as a superhero he's basically on the opposite side. I like DD but that never made sense to me

And honestly I'm also tired of fanboys acting like characters can't be relatable if they're not punching bank robbers. Some fans defend genres not evolving because anything else is too 'political.' If you believe crime is still so out of control that only some White guys in masks can stop it by breaking the law, you're political too, but you just haven't thought about it because it's the norm. Ofc some of us fans don't feel this way and the blame can be passed around

This just doesn't apply to superheroes. Action movies were probably worse although there's less of those kind today (thank goodness). But anytime a hero is in the business of enforcing the law to basically uphold the status quo, but don't want it enforced on themselves, I find that problematic. And I want it to change