§12106 Formula for Grants

Summary

It explains how grant money is split among States and U.S. territories. For one group of grants, 85% of the money is set aside. No State can get more than 9% of that 85% pool. From that 85%, each eligible State gets 0.75% and each eligible U.S. territory (Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands) gets 0.05%. The rest of the 85% is divided by each State’s share of Part 1 violent crimes reported to the FBI over the prior 3 years, compared to the average for eligible States. The remaining 15% of the money is handled similarly for a different set of eligible States: each such State gets 3.0% (territories get 0.03%), and then the leftover 15% is split by each State’s share of Part 1 violent crimes over the past 3 years. Money for another grant program is divided only by each eligible State’s average annual Part 1 violent crimes over the prior 3 years, compared to the average for eligible States, but no State may get more than 25% of that pool. If a State’s 3-year crime data is missing or clearly wrong, the Attorney General must use the best similar data available for the previous year. For States in a regional compact, the Attorney General first figures each member State’s amount using these rules, and the compact may receive the sum of those amounts.