400 homicides projected for Baltimore this year

[Mushmouth]

IN MOST places in America, murders are rarer than they have ever been before. Baltimore is not one of them. On June 12th the city witnessed another six killings. That raised the number of homicides in the city during 2017 to 159—the highest recorded mark by that stage of the year since at least 1990, even though the city’s population was much bigger then than it is now. If weighted to reflect the murder rate’s tendency to climb in the hot, fractious summer months, Baltimore is on track to see more than 400 killings this year.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/07/daily-chart

[AFN_Weasel]

Only 400? As Bernie Goetz would say, there is much room for improvement. Perhaps black History Month could be scrapped in favor of courses on marksmanship.