Sci-fi: People should be arrested for crimes they will commit in the future

Claim: It should be illegal to arrest and charge someone for a crime they have not committed because it violates ethics, justice, and practical reason. Issues/Warrants: 1. Changing the future erases crimes. If the time window shows a crime in progress and the police go stop it prematurely, then the crime never occurred. If the crime never happened, then nothing should be shown in the time window but the arrest. Otherwise, the time window is showing a false timeline or alternate timeline where the crime still occurs. 2. Arrests become self-fulfilling prophecies. If a crime is prevented and an arrest is made, the time window will show only the arrest. The police must assume a crime is prevented by arresting the perpetrator(s) they saw being arrested. They can only justify arresting whoever was shown. This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where arrests are made because it will be done and must be done, because failing to do so ensures a crime will occur. 3. Arrests become self-justifying. If the only evidence of a crime is that someone was arrested, the fact of being arrested becomes the justification for the person’s arrest and evidence of their guilt. It’s circular logic. Even though they would have committed the crime, it being prevented means they ultimately didn’t do anything wrong. 4. Self-fulfilling, self-justified arrests enable discrimination and framing innocents. It becomes easy for authorities (and crafty individuals) to frame somebody for a crime or just discriminate personally. Since there is no direct, physical evidence of innocence or wrongdoing, officials could grant favor or discriminate at will. A crafty individual could use advanced technology to change their appearance and frame someone else who they know will be nearby. If the crime is prevented, all physical evidence is erased. The only evidence is from the time window. If the time window is fooled, so are the authorities. Meanwhile, the arrest is factually supported and justified by the time window and recent arrest records agreeing. 5. Criminal defense lawyers become ineffectual and obsolete due to indisputable evidence. Since criminals are already judged before they are arrested, there is no need for a defense because the crime is treated as an indisputable fact. Criminals go automatically from arrest and charges to sentencing and corrections. This violates due process and criminal rights. 6. Trials are obsolete and ineffectual due to lack of information. As a result of the circumstances of #1, the officers and courts won’t even know what to charge criminals with because they have no knowledge or evidence of the alleged prevented crimes beyond the arrest and time window. Anything else would be speculation. Due to #1 through #5, the standard of evidence can never be met and all cases brought this way would be thrown out. 7. No crime was actually committed. The courts could not try, sentence, or charge arrested persons because there was no crime, so the criminals would be released immediately without consequence. You cannot be punished for something you did not do. Even if some form of suggested corrective measure were prescribed instead, they would suggest every corrective measure possible, once again for lack of knowing what crime or reason for committing it. These exercises in futility are unjust, unethical, and impractical wastes of time, effort, and resources. 8. Crime delayed, not prevented. Either the criminal is sentenced, violating their rights, or the criminal is set free to potentially attempt the crime later. If they are not sentenced or even tried, there is no justice or purpose in arresting them except to delay their crimes and send a warning. 9. Police state, USA. Although constant interference may serve as a deterrent, the massive forces required to catch every crime (large, small, violent, or nonviolent) would create a surveillance society. All citizens would be at the mercy of fate and foes while at the same time giving criminals endless opportunities to test the system for gaps and loopholes (as mentioned in #4). Ultimately, crime cannot be prevented 100% through this solution and results in excessively high spending to keep small, one-time criminals in check. Conclusion: In order to protect of ethics, justice, and practicality in the matters stated above, preventative arrests and charges should be illegal.----------------------------------------- (Side Note: The prompt and definitions should have been more clear in round one. I apologize for the inconvenience of this error, since we cannot change it after the challenge has been accepted.)