 In his first year in office , O 'Malley adopted a statistics @-@ based crime tracking system called CitiStat , modeled after <unk> . The system logged every call for service into a database for analysis . The Washington Post wrote in 2006 that Baltimore 's " <unk> rate remains stubbornly high and its public school test scores <unk> low . But CitiStat has saved an estimated $ 350 million and helped generate the city 's first budget surplus in years . " In 2004 , CitiStat accountability tool won Harvard University 's " <unk> in American Government " award . The system garnered interest from Washington , D.C. Mayor Adrian <unk> , as well as crime officials from the United Kingdom . 
