At 4:05 a.m. Saturday, 11/28/15, a 29-year-old-man was killed in a shooting in Southwest Baltimore, just north of Carroll Park, making this the deadliest year per capita that Harm City has seen. Now that the boys have rested up over the Thanksgiving holiday I am expecting some steady work again.

Any readers who would like to readjust their prediction feel free to enter a new one on the comment function below.

While I disagree with the FBI standard of killings per 100,000 to determine the lethality of a municipality, what the hell, I’m an American, and like to see my team in the lead, and a W is a W!

This year the notable trend has been toward black-on-black stabbings, which as far back as the 1980s was one of the least common uses of a knife. It used to be primarily small Latinos and alienated white loners who used the blade to even the odds against the larger and more numerous blacks and city hicks. Now, with the increasingly effeminate nature of young black men, who are generally incapable of dealing with lone adult men of any age or class, the resulting trends in violence committed by black urban youth have been two: mob attacks, and stabbings.

Note: If you look at films of the Baltimore black-on-white civilian riot by the Orioles Stadium at Camden yards you will repeatedly see sissy, non-athletic black youth being manhandled by middle-aged white men, until the middle-aged white wives got in there and compromised their husbands and the hoodrats called in reinforcements. This glaring lack of physicality, together with the emotional emasculation of the black male at the hands of his mother, has produced a class of youth who are hyper-aggressive yet incapable of brawling well, so resort to mob tactics and knives, which can be had at the counter of any Pakistani gas station, or convenience store.

With seven more weeks of violence to go, I am predicting a 2015 total Harm City body count of 325.

What is your prediction?

Any Reader who guesses the correct number of Harm City homicides on a comment posted before Christmas, 2015, will be awarded a copy of Menthol Rampage, a tale of interracial urban violence and mayhem set in Anyhood U.S.A.

The boys are already batting 303 on 11/18 and the BPD chopper is circling again. If you have bid under 310, feel free to adjust your prediction.