Department of Justice federal obligations in Tennessee

Justice awards tagged to Tennessee

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency Department of Justice (code 015) and place-of-performance Tennessee. The extract sums to $1,385,545,938.89 on 2,169 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that Department of Justice spending caused Tennessee outcomes, or that Tennessee caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a Tennessee 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 Tennessee can involve parties elsewhere, and Tennessee 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 $1,385,545,938.89 leaves the USAspending award file. The 2,169 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Twenty-two hundred rows under $1.39 billion

Two thousand one hundred sixty-nine awards under a $1.39 billion book is a midsize justice tape. Dividing $1,385,545,938.89 by 2,169 awards yields an implied mean near $638,795. 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 2,169 and $1,385,545,938.89. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $638,795 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,385,545,938.89 and 2,169. 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 Tennessee.

Tennessee statewide versus DOJ nationwide

Tennessee’s all-agency hub includes every awarding agency with performance in the state. $1,385,545,938.89 is only the Department of Justice cell inside Tennessee. The Department of Justice national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Tennessee answer a different question. They are not the source of the 2,169 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville offices can all attract Justice tags without proving that every dollar of $1,385,545,938.89 was spent in those cities. This packet does not split bureaus. Do not rank Tennessee as more or less safe because the cell appears next to the state code.

Commitments on justice awards

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $1,385,545,938.89 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Tennessee 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 × Tennessee, $1,385,545,938.89, 2,169 awards, obligations only.

Overlay, state hub, and agency hub

The Tennessee × Department of Justice overlay holds the structured rows behind 2,169 awards and $1,385,545,938.89. The Tennessee 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 $1,385,545,938.89 into outlays.

How to cite DOJ in Tennessee

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (awarding agency 015) obligated $1,385,545,938.89 on 2,169 awards coded to Tennessee. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Tennessee and call the figure a national DOJ total. Do not drop Department of Justice and call it Tennessee’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $638,795 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Tennessee subcontractors. Do not convert the Tennessee DOJ cell into a safety ranking.

Questions

How much Department of Justice spending is in Tennessee?

USAspending.gov shows $1,385,545,938.89 in Department of Justice obligations coded to Tennessee across 2,169 awards. Awarding-agency 015 and Tennessee place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total measure crime in Tennessee?

No. $1,385,545,938.89 and 2,169 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 Tennessee?

The implied mean is about $638,795 from $1,385,545,938.89 divided by 2,169 awards. Bureau and program splits are not in this packet. The mean is not a typical grant size.

Are DOJ obligations in Tennessee the same as outlays?

No. $1,385,545,938.89 is an obligation sum on 2,169 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Tennessee × DOJ cell into cash.