Baltimore, a city with one of the highest per capita homicide rates in the country, has not seen a homicide for 10 days and counting. This year is off to a better start. January 2017 saw 32 homicides, according to the Baltimore PD. There were 26 homicides in January 2018. The 10-day period of calm began with a ceasefire called by a community group on the first weekend of February. The group, called Baltimore Ceasefire, is leading a grassroots effort to reduce violence on the streets one weekend at a time. "With each ceasefire, even when people got killed, we saw success. The weekend before the August ceasefire there were six homicides -- even though someone was killed during that ceasefire, it took 41 hours for someone to be killed," Bridgeford said. "That's 41 hours without people being killed! That's a great thing.'' Catherine Pugh, the city's current mayor, has made reducing violence and expanding economic opportunity top priorities in her administration. Pugh and police leadership hope to make strides in recruiting and training new officers.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/us/baltimore-10-days-without-homicide/index.html
It's incredibly sad that going 10 days without a homicide is a accomplishment.
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