In Washington, D.C., where crime is on the rise as it is in many big Democrat-run cities across America, some community leaders have a new plan to address rising violent crime, specifically homicide: simply reminding people that they are not to kill others.

According to local WTOP News, the Anacostia Coordinating Council’s executive director Philip Pannell is one such leader to launch the new sign campaign this week. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is providing 1,000 of the posters and the owner of the local Busboys and Poets restaurant chain committed to printing 2,000 that will distributed to Washingtonians.

But even the activism project’s organizers admit the posters aren’t actually going to dissuade would-be or established criminals from continuing to murder their fellow citizens. Pannell told WTOP that, rather than curbing homicides, “he’s hoping the signs espousing the sixth commandment will reinvigorate discussion about stopping gun violence.”

Ah, conversation about how many people are being killed in Washington. Well, talk is cheap. And it’s not like D.C. needs a braintrust to figure out there’s a problem with crime or how to fix it — stop being soft on crime. But the nation’s capital has been enacting policies that are softer on crime, not tougher, amid “completely unacceptable” violence, as D.C.’s police chief described the problem.