Volume 2, Number 1January-March 2012
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ILEETA Journal Digital Archive
2012
The ILEETA Journal
The supplied archive preserves three 2012 issues: Volume 2, Number 1; Volume 2, Number 3; and Volume 2, Number 4. Volume 2, Number 2 is not present. These files document the first preserved full year of the broader ILEETA Journal format following the 2011 publication transition.
Historical-use notice: These journals are period documents. Their terminology, legal analysis, technology, products, medical assumptions, and training recommendations may not reflect current evidence, law, policy, or ILEETA positions. The abstracts below are modern editorial summaries, not quotations.
Volume 2, Number 1January-March 2012
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Volume 2, Number 1
January-March 2012
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The redesigned journal organizes material into use of force, officer safety, instructor development, and reviews. John Bostain is identified as editor in chief; Harvey Hedden contributes the guest editorial.
Featured articles
Professional Jealousy and the Trainer
Historical abstract: Hedden discusses the resistance trainers may face after gaining expertise, outside recognition, or visibility within their agencies. He describes professional jealousy as an organizational problem that can produce isolation, obstruction, stress, and lost training talent. Rather than treating every disagreement as envy, the essay asks trainers to examine ego, relationships, communication, and their own conduct while remaining committed to useful work. The article is historically notable because it addresses the internal social cost of becoming a recognized instructor - a subject closely tied to ILEETA’s role as a professional community outside agency hierarchies.
Topics: Trainer identity; organizational culture; professional jealousy; leadership
APA-style citation: Harvey Hedden. (2012). Professional Jealousy and the Trainer. The ILEETA Journal, 2(1), 1-3.
Simple, Not Easy
Historical abstract: Willis proposes three themes and six practical strategies for reducing line-of-duty deaths. The distinction in the title is central: an idea may be uncomplicated yet demand sustained effort and cultural change. He asks trainers to model desired safety behavior, confront practices that are silently condoned, reinforce body-armor use, and refuse convenient shortcuts when lives may be affected. The column situates instructors as visible cultural leaders whose everyday behavior can strengthen or undermine formal lessons. It also documents the journal’s engagement with the Below 100 movement and its emphasis on preventable officer deaths.
Topics: Below 100; trainer modeling; safety culture; line-of-duty deaths
APA-style citation: Brian Willis. (2012). Simple, Not Easy. The ILEETA Journal, 2(1), 15-16.
Volume 2, Number 3
Fall 2012
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The issue lists John Bostain as editor, Brian Hill for officer safety, Roy Bethge for instructor development, and Kevin Davis for reviews. Harvey Hedden’s guest editorial anticipates ILEETA’s tenth anniversary in 2013.
Featured articles
How Do We Measure Command Presence?
Historical abstract: Wollert presents a structured method for evaluating command presence during scenario-based training. Drawing on federal competency statements, assault lessons, decision research, and reality-based exercises, he describes the Scenario Training Assessment and Review model and its eight performance factors. The article treats command presence not as an indefinable personality trait but as observable behavior involving awareness, decision-making, communication, control, and follow-through. For instructors, the model offers a shared vocabulary for feedback and assessment. Historically, it illustrates the journal’s growing emphasis on measurable performance and defensible evaluation rather than impressionistic judgments.
Topics: Command presence; scenario assessment; STAR model; performance measurement
APA-style citation: Terry Wollert. (2012). How Do We Measure Command Presence?. The ILEETA Journal, 2(3), 16-18.
Volume 2, Number 4
Winter 2012
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The section-editor structure continues. Published after the Newtown school shooting, the issue opens with Harvey Hedden’s editorial on preventing mass murder and includes firearms, defensive tactics, prisoner control, coaching, leadership, storytelling, and reviews.
Featured articles
What Can We Do to Prevent Mass Murder?
Historical abstract: Writing in the immediate aftermath of the Newtown attack, Hedden considers prevention, deterrence, school security, mental-health systems, public information, and the limits of restricting particular weapons. He weighs several governmental responses and proposes changing how agencies publicize perpetrators, arguing that notoriety can become part of an attacker’s objective. The editorial is best understood as a time-bound intervention written amid grief and uncertainty, not as a settled research synthesis. It is historically significant because it records how ILEETA leadership framed trainers’ responsibilities during a national debate over school violence.
Topics: Mass violence; school safety; deterrence; public information
APA-style citation: Harvey Hedden. (2012). What Can We Do to Prevent Mass Murder?. The ILEETA Journal, 2(4), 1-3.
Tomoe Nage: The All-Too-Often Forgotten Throw
Historical abstract: Hochheim revisits tomoe nage, a sacrifice throw in which a defender falls backward while using one or both feet to redirect a charging opponent. He presents it as a worst-case option when a person is overwhelmed by forward momentum and discusses imperfect outcomes, environmental hazards, equipment, and the need to continue fighting after the throw. The article’s broader training argument is that instructors should preserve potentially useful emergency skills even when they do not fit fashionable systems. It also reflects the journal’s continuing exchange between martial-arts concepts and law-enforcement defensive tactics.
Topics: Defensive tactics; sacrifice throws; ground survival; martial arts
APA-style citation: Hock Hochheim. (2012). Tomoe Nage: The All-Too-Often Forgotten Throw. The ILEETA Journal, 2(4), 7-8.