Department of Justice federal obligations in Massachusetts

Justice awards tagged to Massachusetts

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency Department of Justice (code 015) and place-of-performance Massachusetts. The extract sums to $924,069,814.13 on 3,031 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that Department of Justice spending caused Massachusetts outcomes, or that Massachusetts caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a Massachusetts crime ranking or a count of federal inmates. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a U.S. Attorney’s office, a detention site, a grant recipient, or a contractor. Work tagged to Massachusetts can involve parties elsewhere, and Massachusetts work can be coded to another state.

FBI Uniform Crime Reports, state court caseloads, and prison-population surveys are other series. Mixing any of those series with $924,069,814.13 leaves the USAspending award file. The 3,031 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Three thousand rows under $924 million

Three thousand thirty-one awards under a $924 million book is a midsize justice tape. Dividing $924,069,814.13 by 3,031 awards yields an implied mean near $304,873. That quotient is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical award size and not a median. A few large vehicles can pull the average while many smaller rows sit below it.

Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both 3,031 and $924,069,814.13. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $304,873 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $924,069,814.13 and 3,031. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts statewide versus DOJ nationwide

Massachusetts’s all-agency hub stacks every awarding agency with performance coded to the state. $924,069,814.13 is only the Department of Justice cell inside Massachusetts. The Department of Justice national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Massachusetts answer a different question. They are not the source of the 3,031 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Boston and Springfield offices can attract Justice tags without proving that every dollar of $924,069,814.13 was spent in those cities. This packet does not split bureaus. Do not rank Massachusetts as more or less safe because the cell appears next to the state code. Award-file dollars are not crime counts.

Commitments on justice awards

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $924,069,814.13 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Massachusetts will misstate timing. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.

Multi-year vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts. Cite the pair as agency 015 × Massachusetts, $924,069,814.13, 3,031 awards, obligations only.

Overlay, state hub, and agency hub

The Massachusetts × Department of Justice overlay holds the structured rows behind 3,031 awards and $924,069,814.13. The Massachusetts state page and the Department of Justice agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

Those views do not add a program-code mix or a unique-recipient count this packet omits. They also do not convert $924,069,814.13 into outlays.

How to cite DOJ in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (awarding agency 015) obligated $924,069,814.13 on 3,031 awards coded to Massachusetts. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Massachusetts and call the figure a national DOJ total. Do not drop Department of Justice and call it Massachusetts’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $304,873 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Massachusetts subcontractors. Do not convert the Massachusetts DOJ cell into a safety ranking.

Questions

How much Department of Justice spending is in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov shows $924,069,814.13 in Department of Justice obligations coded to Massachusetts across 3,031 awards. Awarding-agency 015 and Massachusetts place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total measure crime in Massachusetts?

No. $924,069,814.13 and 3,031 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 Massachusetts?

The implied mean is about $304,873 from $924,069,814.13 divided by 3,031 awards. Bureau and program splits are not in this packet. The mean is not a typical grant size.

Are DOJ obligations in Massachusetts the same as outlays?

No. $924,069,814.13 is an obligation sum on 3,031 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Massachusetts × DOJ cell into cash.