"The police will not come in here." The Bat had said nothing about bringing police into the boy's place. "If they found you lived here alone, they would place with adults." The boy wasn't so grown up that he could be totally on his own after all.
The Bat took a deep breath and caught up the rope that bound the downed thug. It wasn't that much easier for the Bat, but there were no injuries to contend with. Just pull the gorram bag of uselessness along and let the police deal with him later.
"You could have done something more than bruising." The Bat's attention had never fully left the boy.