intense about the neigh- borhood. The story itself got a lot of news coverage, and that’s how we picked up Fallen Boy, Silver Lin- ing, and a few others. They saw the events happening and said, ‘Wow there are good groups out there.’” Mr. Xtreme notes that
A passerby chats with Violet and Zoo While many U.S. chap-
ters have folded (the most recent entry on reallifesu-
perheroes.com is a pro- file on Mr. Xtreme from late 2011), Mr. Xtreme told me at Lestat’s Cof- fee House several weeks prior to the foot-patrol that the justice league has been improving. “We’ve grown quite a bit
over the past five years,” says Mr. Xtreme, whose green helmet, buggy gog- gles, hodgepodge body armor, and flowing cape lend the appearance of a giant child playing make- believe as a Ninja Turtle. “We’re much more orga- nized. We have a more established patrol sched- ule. We’re more estab- lished in the community. Our outreach program is going well. We recently had volunteers and run- ners in a run for autism. We’re downtown in the Gaslamp every Friday and Saturday.” “Basically, that’s where
we feel we can do the most good,” says The Grim, who has been patrolling with the League for five years. “Anytime you have large
groups of young men gath- ering and you have alco- hol or drugs, that’s where your problems are going to show up,” adds Midnight Highwayman, a 46-year- old extermination-busi-
ness owner. “In the early days of XJL,
about ten years ago, we patrolled just about every- where, all over the city, dif- ferent days and nights,” says Mr. Xtreme. “So now we’ve got it streamlined down to what we figure are the best nights, Fri- days and Saturdays, 11 to 3. That’s when we feel like we can do the most.” The league will also
patrol other neighbor- hoods at the request of citizens, as was the case when they were asked to watch over the College Area this past Saint Pat- rick’s Day and North Park during the string of violent sexual assaults in 2014. “The community, they
were so outraged,” recalls Mr. Xtreme, a security guard and groundskee- per by profession. “They were calling us to help.
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Even though we have lim- ited resources and limited manpower we managed to pull it all together between North Park and downtown patrols at the same time. It was tough but we managed to get it done, and I think we did a good job.” “Several of our recruits
came from that time period,” says Midnight Highwayman, who has about three years with the league. “We were so
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