This initiative would have added more crimes to the list of non-violent felonies for which early parole is restricted, and would have required DNA collection for certain misdemeanors.

Observers partly attributed its failure to the George Floyd protests bringing negative attention to punitive criminal justice policies.

[4] Proponents cited that these changes are to close exceptions in the original text of Proposition 47 that allowed access to early parole or probation for individuals convicted of sex trafficking of children, rape of an unconscious person, felony assault with a deadly weapon, battery on a police officer or freighter, and felony domestic violence.

[5] The measure was opposed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, former governor Jerry Brown, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

In addition, they also cite the disparate impact that America's criminal justice system has on African Americans, a concern that has increased in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.