The left paints police as murderers, the justice system as an instrument of state oppression, and incarceration as a massive vice that is overused and damaging to the social fabric. The imposition of discomfort on criminals, by arrest, bail, jail, fines or prison, we are now told, is regressive, racist and, remarkably, a cause of crime. Even the language used to describe lawbreakers has been sterilized: Criminals are now “justice-involved individuals,” rioters are “mostly peaceful” and released convicts are “returning citizens.” In the upside-down world of progressive fantasy, bad men do no wrong, and good men do no right.