To whomever is reading this, I found the fix for this issue myself where the controller would crash the game before the game even loaded properly.
I had tried everything previously--from restoring game files, to reinstalling LSPDFR and all my mods, yet it still did not work. However, the issue seemed to rely within the version of windows 10 I had. On my computer, I had an installation of Windows 10 Version 1809, and it had turned out that there was a newer update that had not been automatically updated onto my computer, which is Windows 10 Version 1909. For whatever reason, Version 1809 with windows was causing the apparent controller crash, without any traces which is why it was difficult to figure the problem out.
So, I updated to Windows 10 Version 1909, and the bug was not present anymore, and I was free of the controller crashes.
Hopefully this helps you out, if you do have this issue.