Common Q&A

Q: Do the police know about us?
A: Yes, but no. We have encounters with law enforcement in the past either by chance or when we have called for emergency services.

Q: Why did we decide to be real life superheroes (RLSH)?
A: As a team we believe in becoming a symbol and to do activities that can better our community, our city, and our state. A way we do that is dressing, acting, and having characteristics of a superhero to be role models to inspire other people to help their communities.

Q: Do we record our missions or patrols?
A: We take both pictures for social media preposes and we video record for legal reasons for when a felony crime takes place. We want to note that we don't post video's of us doing handouts to show respect to people on the street, and same goes for people when a medical call needs to be placed.

Q: How do we handle criticism and hate online?
A: We understand where both criticism and hate comes from because when someone hears "real life superhero" there are a lot of stereotypes that like we're out here thinking we have super powers, or we're wanna be Batman and Daredevil, or we're vigilantes. It also comes with questions and we answer those questions to the best of our ability.
Q: What kind of training do we have?
A: It varies between members Savior has a martial arts training in boxing and taekwondo and is a BLS certified, Faith Walker has a background in overdose prevention and has ties with people in the communities, Twisted Stone has done volunteer work in the past along with cleaning community areas. Whatever skills you offer in the team will be expanded upon once in the team and where you will fit in to the team.
Q: Do we have day jobs?
A: Yes we all have jobs.
Q: What has been our biggest success as a team?
A: Our success is going out in uniform and doing acts of good together as a team.

Q: Why not just volunteer without the costume?
A: Given what we what we do we get asked this often, the uniform/costume helps stands us out in public for both citizens and police and it'll make people notice on the actions that we're doing later leaving them inspired to do the same without the costume.
Q: What's our responds for people who call us vigilantes?
A: We find it understandable why it can be misunderstood as vigilante activity, but that's not really what we do. The big difference is that vigilante takes it upon themselves to be judge, jury, and executioner versus what we do it is stay along the lines of the laws and turn over a suspect that has committed felony to the authorities (Covered by South Dakota Legislature 23A-3-3).

Q: Do people take us seriously?
A: It's a mix of reactions, we get appetition, we get called names, a few little times we get laughed at.