Solving crimes is huge part of prevention though. Most crime is done by all very small set of criminals. The sooner you can catch some of those people the more crime is prevented.
What you're saying makes intuitive sense but it turns out people are not for the most part destined for criminality or not. It's a social phenomenon that responds to social pressures and incentives. If you arrest all the criminals in an area, the pressures that created them will create a new batch of criminals, in fact are already creating them.
Why is the burden here zero crime? Are you showing me a community that does have police and has zero crime? Our current solution is expensive and terrible, an alternative needs to be merely better not perfect.
I know in advance you're not listening because you told me so, and because it's what I expect from people who are happy with the current atrocities and human rights violations we call policing.
Yes it's typically police that release these reports because it's their business.
Police in Atlanta found that 1000 people out of the whole city were responsible for 40% of crime in one year. And these 1000 people were repeat offenders that already had at least 3 felony convictions.
Like that is wild, but it's not remotely even surprising if you are in any way involved in street level crime.