###The Law Escalates Until It Wins, by lethal force if necessary.
The Law Escalates Until It Wins, by lethal force if necessary.
It is a necessary principle of law enforcement that the police/government must escalate until they win, even over the slightest of laws.
In the USA, you may receive a parking ticket without being arrested, just sent on your way, free as a bird. But you cannot continue to just not pay it, or not appear in court, forever. Warrants for your arrest will be issued; failing to comply is a bigger crime, you may be jailed. Escaping jail is a bigger crime. Eventually the government will escalate to lethal force -- over your refusal to pay a parking ticket.
That is as it should be. Your society is the same. As @o.m. said (beat me to it), people with powers should be innocent until proven guilty, but once they have committed a crime: They go to regular prison. If they have become violent against law enforcement, a super-max prison. If they can escape that, and choose to do so, their lives are not sacrosanct, the government escalates to lethal force and will seek to kill them if they refuse to remain incarcerated for their term.
Of course, that escalation should itself be legal, decided by a judge in criminal court, that the aberrant is a danger to life and property in their society, or a terrorist and murderer and enemy of the state, and any and all forms of lethal force are authorized to "neutralize" the danger of this aberrant continuing to live.
That is what will happen. IRL, just because some Navy Seal is capable of taking out the two police sent to arrest him, doesn't make that a good idea for him, failure to comply may truly ruin his life. Or he could be killed by the squad of police in battle armor that come to take him next time.
Just don't make the mistake of creating aberrants that cannot be defeated or restrained by any means. Not only do they not make physical sense, they kill your story.
The upshot is: You don't have to come up with fancy ways of detaining aberrants. Our current super-max prisons are sufficient, or places difficult to escape like Riker's Island or Guantanamo are enough.
If the aberrants can escape, they stay in prison of their own free will or they are killed. Stop being so respectful of the lives of criminals that could not restrain themselves from doing harm to innocent lives (including law enforcement or prison guards). Have your society get biblical instead: A life for a life.
I'm an atheist, but on this point, I'll agree that fair is fair. Treat their life with the same disregard they have treated the lives of innocents, and kill them. The general principle should be that NOBODY gets to ruin the lives of others for their own personal gain, power or enjoyment.
