Calling All Drug Dealers Story aired: Friday, March 24, 2006
"Dear Baltimore drug dealers: I promise this will be the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard. Here goes: how about taking the summer off to see what it might be like around here without all the shooting and killing? Serious. How about a cease-fire? A little break could save lives, maybe even your own."
That's an excerpt from Baltimore Sun columnist's Dan Rodricks article "Dealers, Deal if you must -- but please, stop the killing."
Rodricks says he wrote the piece in a moment of desperation last June because after 26 years of writing, he was fed up writing about drugs and violence. In his direct appeal to drug dealers, he included his phone number and on offer to help anyone go straight and get a job.
Well, so far, about 12-hundred people have called to take him up on it.
