Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott touts city data usage during meeting of international mayors hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies

When Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott was under pressure to tackle the city’s longstanding issue with young men and women squeegeeing windows on city street corners, he turned to data. The city’s Democratic first-term mayor had staff pull together data detailing street corners where the practice was most prevalent, who city staff were interacting with most and call logs from city motorists who were lodging complaints.