The Joker's Plan in The Dark Knight Was Dependent on Expected Brutality From a 'Good' Cop

The success of The Joker's numerous schemes in The Dark Knight is dependent on a medley of greed, corruption, stupidity, and mostly collective late-stage astigmatism. Blowing up Gotham General, for instance, requires the thousands of nurses and doctors and orderlies and janitors and cafeteria workers and patients and...