No, not in Baltimore, unfortunately.

You want to be part of such a glowing stat, move to Miami. Yep, Miami, the city that once had a terrible reputation for losing tourists, recored ZERO murders for the month of October, according to the Miami Herald:

October passed without a homicide -- meaning for the first time since May 1966, an entire month went by in the city of Miami without someone succumbing violently.

''That's an amazing thing,'' said Miami Lt. John Buhrmaster, a longtime homicide investigator. ``It's a great record when people are not killing each other.''

The total actually stood at 35 days and counting. The last homicide: Sept. 26, the Overtown shooting death of Demetrius Sherman, 26.

The city has recorded 55 slayings this year; they had 87 in all of last year. That's for a city with a populatiion of 362,000. It doesn't include the suburbs, which have recorded 217 slayings thus far this year. Suburban Miami includes some of the roughest areas around. That's why it's dangerous to make such comparisons, and this one I agree is simplistic. Still, a month without a homicide, even a domestic, is something to note.

Of course, the numbers are meaningless. (see today's crime column on the murder count). The rate of murders in Miami this year is 15.1 per 100,000 residents, still higher than New York City but far less than Baltimore, which has a rate of about 32 per 100,000 residents (it was 43 last year).

The last time Miami went a month without a slaying was back in 1966. Has Baltimore ever done that? I don't have the detailed stats going back that far but back in 2000, the last time the city recorded 300 killings, I compiled a graphic that showed the number slayings per year in Baltimore going back to 1812. It was far from precise -- many records were compiled from a variety of sources; police didn't keep stats back then, but there were less than 50 slayings a year in the city up through the early 1900s.

Though there were spikes even back in the "good old days" particularly around election time. Anti-Federalist riots in the 1820 and the War of 1812 sparked a spike in killings, as did impoverished times in the 1840s, when published reports noted violence becoming "more routine as thugs roam dimly lit streets and prey upon alcoholics and the poor."

In the 1870s, Baltimore had a surge in handgun killings, sending slaying numbers consistently into the double-digits, mostly due to riots at polling places. Murders reached the triple digits for the first time in Baltimore in the 1960s, attributed to the growing drug trade, and reached into the 300s in the 1990s with the introduction of crack cocaine.

Here are a couple of charts: