The left has a weird view of crime

I was reading a bunch of articles about the relative rate of criminal activity by race.

What struck me as very interesting is that in the left wing source there were certain assumptions that don't make sense:

1) The fact that more people are being convicted of felonies is intrinsically bad; they never ask if more convictions are occurring because more crimes are occurring.

2) The fact that more people were in jail is intrinsically bad; they never ask if having more people in jail reduces the crime rate.

3) Any racial disparity is due to racism; 72% of Blacks come from broken families while only 29% of whites do and coming from a broken family has been shown to correlate with a higher crime rate.

4) Society is better off if convicted criminals are out on probation; while that's better for the criminal is it better for society?

5) The problem isn't the suffering of victims but the burdens carried by criminals after they're convicted; They are very concerned about how felon's can't vote and have a tougher time getting a job but they seem unconcerned about people who are victims of felons who commit new crimes.

The basic message that I saw was that society is evil because it is too harsh in it's treatment of felons and that felons deserve a break irrespective of the adverse impacts that will have on society.

In a sense this is unsurprising since the academics who were writing these reports are insulated from the effects of crime and hence have no skin in the game; letting drug dealers, murderers, rapists, etc out early won't put them at risk since they live and work in safe locations which are well protected.

Like most left wing policies there seems to be a complete absence of concern for the victims of crime. The entirety of the emotional investment seems to be in the criminals and how they are suffering too much for their crimes.

Needless to say the vast majority of Americans, especially Blacks who live in high crime areas, have a different perspective; it's the victims we should be caring about and once someone has convicted of a felony their life should be miserable until they have a long track record of having reformed.