Department of Justice federal obligations in District of Columbia

A thick DOJ file on the District tag

Department of Justice as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 7,655 records summing to $3,187,333,949.76. A Department of Justice award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Greenbelt or Alexandria-coded DOJ award belongs on those state joins.

Seven thousand six hundred fifty-five awards against $3,187,333,949.76 is a thick District DOJ file: many more rows than Maryland’s 4,159, still a record count rather than unique cases. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 7,655 as 7,655 unique prosecutions, unique defendants, or named litigating divisions. Department of Justice in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Justice is the agency book without a DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Main Justice folklore is not a packet split. Place-of-performance DC can follow a payee address. That is not a street-level spend map. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not cause $3,187,333,949.76 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 015 × DC only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

7,655 rows are not 7,655 prosecutions

$3,187,333,949.76 does not measure prosecutions, unique defendants, or named litigating divisions. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 015 and a DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 7,655 awards as a census of prosecutions, unique defendants, or named litigating divisions. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or Department of Justice matched $3,187,333,949.76 and 7,655, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland and Virginia Justice joins are other pairs, not addends.

District of Columbia, not a Maryland–Virginia justice belt

Place of performance DC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Greenbelt or Alexandria-coded DOJ award belongs on those state joins. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Main Justice folklore is not a packet split. Place-of-performance DC can follow a payee address. That is not a street-level spend map. This packet does not split $3,187,333,949.76 by city, county, or named facility. 7,655 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Headquarters volume still records obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,187,333,949.76 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in District of Columbia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

District of Columbia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 7,655-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $3,187,333,949.76. The compact headline $3.19 billion is that same dollar total rounded, not a second extract.

Citing DOJ in the District

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $3,187,333,949.76 on 7,655 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as prosecutions, unique defendants, or named litigating divisions.

Prefer Department of Justice in District of Columbia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DC. Department of Justice is the 015 parent without the DC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,187,333,949.76. The implied mean near $416,373 is $3,187,333,949.76 divided by 7,655. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Justice obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $3,187,333,949.76 across 7,655 awards with awarding agency 015 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of prosecutions, unique defendants, or named litigating divisions. Department of Justice in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,187,333,949.76.

Is $3,187,333,949.76 a measure of prosecutions, unique defendants, or named litigating divisions?

No. The packet publishes $3,187,333,949.76 and 7,655 awards for agency 015 inside DC coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DOJ file have 7,655 awards?

That is the award-record count for 015 × DC. Combined with $3,187,333,949.76, the average is about $416,373. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 7,655 is not unique prosecutions, unique defendants, or named litigating divisions. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live DOJ–District of Columbia table?

Department of Justice in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Justice are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,187,333,949.76. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.