Can crime survive in the nation’s capital? Not only survive but grow stronger and stronger, if some of Washington’s leading black officials have their way. Consider the following:
Traditionally, convicted felons who are out of prison on probation or parole are denied rights accorded the more law-abiding citizenry, including, among other things, the right to vote. Earlier this year, the District of Columbia’s first congressman, the Reverend Walter E. Fauntroy, introduced a bill which would enfranchise such felons in the District, where they number, according to Fauntroy, in the neighborhood of twenty to twenty-five thousand.
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