Lamson Library: CJ 1060 Technology in Criminal Justice (Dr. Mackey): Government Documents

Your government document will, of course, come from a .gov site, but a .gov site doesn't mean you've located a government document!

Your goal is to find a government document. This page will show you the difference.

The whole search doesn't show in the text box, but the full search string is:

tasers (document or report) “U.S. Department” site:.gov filetype:pdf after:2015

tasers	tells Google to search for the word "tasers"
(document OR report)	tells Google to search for the words "document" OR "report" -- you need the parentheses and the Boolean operator "OR"
"U.S. Department"	the quotation marks tell Google only to find instances of these characters appearing together.
site:.gov	tells Google to only search sites in the .GOV domain
filetype:pdf	tells Google to only search for PDF files [Documents are most likely to be posted to the web as PDFs.]
after:2015	tells Google to only return pages posted to the web after 2015

“less than lethal” (document or report) “U.S. Department” site:.gov filetype:pdf after:2015

Same search using "less than lethal" as the first item in the search string. Note: the quotation marks are required.

“Body armor” (document or report) “U.S. Department” site:.gov filetype:pdf after:2015

Similar search using "body armor"

“5g communication” (document or report) “U.S. Department” site:.gov filetype:pdf after:2015

(Polygraph or “lie detector”) (document or report) “U.S.Department” site:.gov filetype:pdf after:2015

“Crime mapping” (document or report) “U.S.Department” site:.gov filetype:pdf after:2015