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At no point in the movie are there any legitimate reasons for time travel, implying that the only reason for time travel is to prevent other people from using time travel. This is actually a plot point. [[Butterfly of Doom]] means that attempting to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] would have disastrous side effects, so about the least dangerous thing you can do with it is either [[This Is My Boomstick|go back and steal things with advanced technology]] or [[Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit|make investments in the past that you can cash in on in the present.]] And even this is risking some bizarre accident that could kill billions. So aside from the highly risky (and unprofitable) archaeological possibilities, the technology has no productive use, resulting in the titular Cops. One guy even suggests that they simply re-invest the program's funding in better present-day regulations on the technology {{spoiler|but he's actually the [[Big Bad]] who wants to stop the program's interference in his own time travel shenanigans.}}