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Second, involuntary treatment proponents make an association between mental health/addiction and public safety, suggesting that people with mental health problems or drug users are violent.

In Roberts’ telling, this trauma was enabled by “big government” and its proponents.

The proponents of the proposition appealed, but the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that they did not represent the state and had no standing.

Indeed, the proponents of Proposition 36, including the mayors of San José, San Francisco and San Diego, described it as a “mass treatment” measure to address “chronic homelessness, addiction and despair.”

Proposition 6 proponents chalked up its likely failure not to voters’ support for “slavery” but to growing concerns about public safety and how those worries could impact any policy measure related to prison reform.