Hit a brick wall on super hero reconstruction.

Why the hell would there be any obvious street crime in a city where you have a few dozen (I haven't figured out all of the math yet) supers?

My main problem is getting a new hero some publicity, but nothing is happening that the police can't handle (traffic stops, that sort of thing).

Also, if anyone has any good decons for the genre, that would also be quite helpful.

Bank robberies, hostage situations, and street muggings often make good examples of initial hero times in most stories because in these situations, police forces simply can't respond fast enough to stop them.

From there, you can make at least three or four of your supers as the Rogues Gallery, the last one being the Big Bad.

That's all I can think of, but quite honestly, they're pretty common. So maybe you could put some twists on those.

I remembered one cheap tactic in making super villains by turning ordinary civilians or even important allies of the hero into super villains.

Superheroes don't actually have the authority to arrest criminals. Superheroes exist because police normally can't enter the "legitimate business" owned by organized crime without a search warrant. However, the police can investigate a "disturbance of the peace," such as mafia goons trying to shoot a circus acrobat and missing quite a bit.

This tactic is also employed by "legitimate businessmen" to get the police to investigate their competition. They get some variation of evil clown to be disturbing in order to lead the police around by the nose. After all, it is easier to convince a bad person to be bad than to bribe a good person to act in their own best interests.

Likewise, it is easy to convince a desperate man who is about to have the bank reposess the house his family lives in that he needs to fake a bank robbery so that a white collar criminal can get access to the computers. All hostages look alike to the police, and while most of the tellers would want to go home after a traumatic experience, you can't help but admire someone who wants to get right back on the horse. Besides, bank robbery is never a criminal mastermind's real goal. Money is

You could start the hero in a city with fewer supers. Maybe he happens to be the only hero in a mid-sized city - perhaps the one nearest to where you live - and he builds up a bit of a reputation, then has to move to a larger city with more superheroes.

Or, other superheroes may generally stick to certain areas rather than patrolling the whole city. The biggest superheroes probably don't bother with street crime at all, sticking to more serious threats. So of the dozens in the city, maybe only a third of them actually deal with street crime, and they have beats they police, and your character simply starts in a part of town that has minimal superhero presence, and as a result has a larger-than-usual criminal presence as thugs move away from the areas where the superheroes hang out.

The obvious reason for continued street crime is quite simple - the criminals vastly outnumber the supers. Even with a dozen (or two) patrolling the streets, a city the size of NYC, LA, or Chicago, is going to have thousands, if not tens of thousands of criminals. Even if the supers are capable of patrolling 24/7 they simply cannot be in enough places to stop every single criminal. And that's before you get into the potential legal disasters of (probably) non-law-enforcement people attempting to make arrests, or the inevitable lawsuits because Super Dude stopped to arrest a drug dealer and therefore didn't stop a murder one block further down.

Also, unless some of your supers have precognition, there's going to be crimes that they quite simply don't know about, super senses or not. The best use for supers would be something akin to a one-man SWAT team, especially if they have super-speed/flight/teleportation so their response time can be measured in seconds. Such supers would be far more effective to the police sitting in headquarters waiting for serious emergencies, than patrolling neighborhoods looking for muggers.