Baltimore's 'Nobody Kill Anybody' Weekend: Yeah, That Didn't Work.

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So, Baltimore had this brilliant idea to cut down on crime: Just ask everyone not to kill anybody for, oh, say, 72 hours.

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Now, this will come as a huge shock, no doubt, but — it didn't work! People killed each other! Even though they were expressly asked not to!

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Baltimore has long been the murder capital of the U.S. In 2016, the city of 621,849 had 318 murders — that's 51.1 per 100,000 people. And they're on record pace again, with 208 murders so far this year. Make that 210 with Saturday's murders.

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But Errika Bridgeford, a 44-year-old mother, called for a 72-hour truce. Organizers aimed to stop the shooting from Friday, Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 6, with a unified and blunt message: “Nobody kill anybody.”

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Their message has been printed on T-shirts and flyers. They designed a website and held community meetings. More than 1,600 people visited their Facebook page. The grass-roots campaign has swelled since it began in May.

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You have to feel for those that don't have the financial or educational means that want better, but are "stuck" so to speak in their environment due to their own doing or simply were raised in this type of setting.

The "thugs" don't care about these people or anyone for that matter. They only care about themselves and as long as that is the case, nothing will change. A perpetual cycle.