The good guys are intervening. They're just doing it a little different than normal.
It's like hunting roaches in the dark.
You could just flip the light on and see them all scatter, but you'd only get 10% of them. The mothers (the ones you're really after) run first.
They're a lot more comfortable in the dark, easier to hunt. Comfy and dumb.
Good guys have night vision and fly swatters.
American people have been in the dark so long you can't just flip on the light, it'll hurt half the country's eyes.