 In his first year in office , O 'Malley adopted a statistics @-@ based crime tracking system called CitiStat , modeled after Compstat . The system logged every call for service into a database for analysis . The Washington Post wrote in 2006 that Baltimore 's " homicide rate remains stubbornly high and its public school test scores disappointingly 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 " Innovations in American Government " award . The system garnered interest from Washington , D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty , as well as crime officials from the United Kingdom . 
 In his first year in office , O 'Malley adopted a statistics @-@ based crime tracking system called CitiStat , modeled after Compstat . The system logged every call for service into a database for analysis . The Washington Post wrote in 2006 that Baltimore <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>" homicide rate <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>remains</mark></a> stubbornly high and its public school test scores disappointingly low . But CitiStat <a href='been_done' title='3'><mark>has</mark></a> saved an estimated $ 350 million and helped generate the city <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'s</mark></a>first budget surplus in years . " In 2004 , CitiStat accountability tool won Harvard University <a href='null_genetive' title='5'><mark>'s</mark></a>" Innovations in American Government " award . The system garnered interest from Washington , D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty , as well as crime officials from the United Kingdom . 
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