Department of Justice federal obligations in Alabama

Justice awards tagged to Alabama

This page is a join: Department of Justice as awarding agency, Alabama as place of performance. The extract sums to $2,567,333,545.07 on 3,823 awards. Those numbers describe coding in USAspending.gov. They do not show that DOJ spending caused Alabama crime trends, or that Alabama’s justice system caused the federal award book.

Place-of-performance can follow a U.S. Attorney’s office, a Bureau of Prisons facility, a grant recipient, or a contractor. Work performed elsewhere can still be coded to Alabama, and Alabama work can be coded elsewhere. The 3,823 count is award records, including modifications, not unique cases or inmates.

FBI Uniform Crime Reports, state court caseloads, and prison-population surveys are other series. Mixing any of them with $2,567,333,545.07 leaves the USAspending obligation definition. This packet has no offense counts, no inmate counts, and no bureau split among FBI, BOP, USMS, or grant offices inside the 3,823 rows.

Thirty-eight hundred rows under $2.57 billion

Dividing $2,567,333,545.07 by 3,823 awards yields an implied mean near $671,549. Grant actions, detention contracts, and litigation support can share that blended average. This packet does not split FBI, BOP, USMS, or Office of Justice Programs rows.

A 3,823-row tape is busier than a short formula file and thinner than a six-figure loan book. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source.

Alabama’s federal courthouses, detention sites, and grant recipients can all attract place-of-performance tags. A single large detention or facilities vehicle can pull the implied mean near $671,549 even while many of the 3,823 rows are smaller grants. This packet does not identify that vehicle. Treat the mean as a file ratio, not a typical U.S. Attorney’s office budget.

Alabama’s DOJ cell versus parent rollups

Alabama’s statewide hub includes every awarding agency with performance in the state. $2,567,333,545.07 is only Justice. DOJ’s national hub includes every state. The join is the overlap.

FBI Uniform Crime Reports and state court caseloads are separate series. Mixing them with this award file leaves the USAspending obligation definition. This packet has no offense counts to quote.

Do not rank Alabama as more or less safe because $2,567,333,545.07 appears next to the state code. Award-file dollars are not crime counts. The overlay, the Alabama state hub, and the Justice agency hub answer three different questions: the pair, the state mix, and the national agency book. Keep those questions separate.

Commitments on justice awards

Detention, grant, and contract vehicles can remain open across years. $2,567,333,545.07 is the obligation stock on the tagged rows, not cash already paid to Alabama vendors and not a single appropriation act. SpendingVault does not publish a DOJ-in-Alabama outlay total here.

Cite the pair as agency 015 × Alabama, $2,567,333,545.07, 3,823 awards, obligations only.

Alabama’s statewide Justice cell can look large next to smaller states without meaning the extract measured crime. $2,567,333,545.07 sits on 3,823 award records. Use the overlay for recipient slices. Keep the obligation label so the pair is not read as cash already paid to Alabama vendors or as a safety ranking.

Overlay, state hub, and agency hub

The Alabama × DOJ overlay holds the structured rows. The Alabama state page and the Justice agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs.

Those links do not add a bureau mix or a unique-recipient count this packet omits, and they do not convert $2,567,333,545.07 into outlays.

How to cite DOJ in Alabama

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (awarding agency 015) obligated $2,567,333,545.07 on 3,823 awards coded to Alabama. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Alabama and call the figure a national DOJ total. Do not drop Justice and call it Alabama’s entire federal book.

Later ingests can move dollars and the 3,823-award count. This prose is a snapshot. The overlay is the live cell. The implied mean near $671,549 remains a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical grant or detention contract.

Questions

How much Department of Justice spending is in Alabama?

USAspending.gov shows $2,567,333,545.07 in DOJ obligations coded to Alabama across 3,823 awards. Awarding-agency 015 and Alabama place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total measure crime in Alabama?

No. $2,567,333,545.07 and 3,823 awards are award-file coding totals. They are not crime counts, conviction counts, or a safety ranking. Correlation between Justice awards and a state code is not causation.

What is the average DOJ award in Alabama?

The implied mean is about $671,549 from $2,567,333,545.07 divided by 3,823 awards. Bureau and program splits are not in this packet. The mean is not a typical grant size.

Are DOJ obligations in Alabama the same as outlays?

No. $2,567,333,545.07 is an obligation sum. Outlays are cash payments and can lag on multi-year detention or grant vehicles. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.