Volume 10, Number 1January-March 2010
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ILEETA Journal Digital Archive
2010
The ILEETA Use of Force Journal
The supplied archive preserves one 2010 issue: Volume 10, Number 1 (January-March). Five representative articles are presented below. Missing files in the supplied collection are an archival gap, not proof that later 2010 issues did not exist.
Historical-use notice: These journals are preserved as period documents. Their terminology, legal analysis, technology, products, medical assumptions, and training recommendations may no longer reflect current evidence, law, policy, or ILEETA positions. Article summaries below are editorial abstracts, not quotations.
Volume 10, Number 1January-March 2010
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Volume 10, Number 1
January-March 2010
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Brian A. Kinnaird, Ph.D., is listed as editor, Steve Ashley as associate editor, and Harvey Hedden as executive director. The issue states a mission of providing trainers and educators with critical use-of-force information to promote safe, effective, and legal force.
Featured articles
Empirical Use of Force (Part I)
Historical abstract: Kinnaird introduces empiricism as planned observation and argues that officers and trainers already act as both consumers and producers of practical knowledge. He outlines a preliminary research process: generate observations, define problem areas, evaluate their relevance and available literature, identify variables, and turn those variables into research questions. The column seeks to make formal inquiry less intimidating and connect it to policy review, training evaluation, early-warning systems, and incident analysis. As “Part I,” it is explicitly incomplete, but it records the journal’s effort to encourage more systematic evidence gathering within use-of-force practice.
Topics: Research methods; evidence; policy evaluation; use-of-force analysis
APA-style citation: Brian A. Kinnaird. (2010). Empirical Use of Force (Part I). The ILEETA Use of Force Journal, 10(1), 1-2.
Rule 404(b) and Admissibility of Critical Evidence to Defend Police Use of Force
Historical abstract: Ayoob discusses whether prior violent acts by an injured or deceased person may be admitted when an officer claims self-defense. He uses several criminal cases to argue that such evidence can be important when the identity of the first aggressor is disputed, while acknowledging that admissibility depends on the court and jurisdiction. The article is directed toward defense preparation and offers appellate decisions as potentially persuasive authority. Historically, it shows the journal linking force instruction with litigation strategy, evidentiary rules, and the later reconstruction of rapidly unfolding encounters.
Topics: Evidence law; Rule 404(b); police defense; use-of-force litigation
APA-style citation: Massad Ayoob. (2010). Rule 404(b) and Admissibility of Critical Evidence to Defend Police Use of Force. The ILEETA Use of Force Journal, 10(1), 3-4.
Three Dimensions of Target Training
Historical abstract: Hochheim contrasts flat range targets, partially interactive drills, and full scenario-based simulation. He describes paper practice as necessary for weapon familiarity but insufficient for problem-solving against moving, thinking people. Intermediate exercises add return fire or short judgment vignettes; the third dimension uses orchestrated scenarios in which participants rotate roles and confront ambiguity. He proposes spending more training time in interactive simulation after baseline live-fire competence is established. The article captures the journal’s continuing interest in moving beyond marksmanship toward decision-making, adaptation, and scenarios that do not automatically end in gunfire.
Topics: Firearms training; simulation; scenario design; judgment
APA-style citation: Hock Hochheim. (2010). Three Dimensions of Target Training. The ILEETA Use of Force Journal, 10(1), 5-6.
An Evaluation of the Apprehender™ Cuffing Control Device
Historical abstract: Smith reviews a forked control tool intended to capture a hostile subject’s wrist and assist with restraint. He considers its leverage, blocking, pushing, striking, and takedown applications while noting its weight and handling demands. The article places equipment evaluation inside a broader instructor responsibility: a device should be tested for realistic utility, limitations, policy fit, and training burden rather than accepted on description alone. Read historically, the review documents the continuing search for intermediate control options and the practical skepticism trainers brought to unfamiliar tools entering the law-enforcement market.
Topics: Control devices; equipment evaluation; handcuffing; defensive tactics
APA-style citation: Larry Smith. (2010). An Evaluation of the Apprehender™ Cuffing Control Device. The ILEETA Use of Force Journal, 10(1), 6-7.
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association
Historical abstract: Adler, identified as an ILEETA charter member and FLEOA national president, reproduces an advocacy position urging authorization for qualified active and retired officers to carry concealed firearms aboard domestic commercial flights. The argument followed the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and anticipated greater Federal Air Marshal concentration on international routes. It presents armed, trained law-enforcement passengers as an additional security layer and calls for immediate federal action. The piece is a useful record of how contemporary terrorism concerns entered the journal and how a member association used its pages for policy advocacy.
Topics: Aviation security; LEOSA; federal law enforcement; policy advocacy
APA-style citation: J. Adler. (2010). Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. The ILEETA Use of Force Journal, 10(1), 20-21.