I had a silly thought.

[errickfoxy]

When the police in.. wherever Spiderman hangs out find some dudes webbed up from a light pole, and you know Spidey does that like all the time, what do they do? Does Spiderman leave a note saying "I caught these dudes robbing that liquor store" or "this guy took a lady's purse" or whatever? Do they then press charges on the webbed-up dudes? I

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[crosscheck_fox]

I would assume it's kind of covered in general by the Peter Parker getting photos of Spider Man in action all the time idea. They used to show him webbing up a camera nearby to take pictures for his day job, but you never see him doing that now. Well that... and when he started doing the hero thing people still had some sense of right and wrong that didn't involve lawsuits up the yin-yang. ;)

[kesh]

In the old "four color" days, yeah, they just assumed the hero was doing the right thing. Around the '90s, comics started questioning that. Either the police were already there, or the hero was stopping some world-menacing villain. Usually, the crooks dropped off already had warrants against them, so the actual crime the superhero stopped didn't matter as much.

On a few occasions, they did question the whole "tied up in front of the police station" thing. I seem to remember a few Batman comics about petty crooks getting let go because there wasn't enough evidence, and Batman being a fugitive from justice.