Yes. In order for there to be a crime, there has to be a victim.
If property or persons are damaged or destroyed or have things of value taken from them, that is a crime.
Everything else is a population control or revenue generation program enforced at gunpoint by government employees and is morally wrong.
So there can be no preventative measures, only reactive ones? Does that philosophy apply to National Security as well? (Not intended to change subject, only to point out the error in your logic).