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Re: Radar detectors [Re: Calvin] #6223086
04/21/18 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted By: Calvin
See what I get for trying to explain 20 years of street experience (at night) to a guy holed up on a computer?

Get outside...You'll feel better.

Good day, Sir.

Selective policing, nice...


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Radar detectors [Re: AntiGov] #6223088
04/21/18 12:13 PM
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Calvin get a clue. Read my post. Believe it or not gas drive offs and burglary used to be things LE concerned themselves with. One benefit was prepay gas stations were non existent. Prepay started when LE decided to quit going after thieves so the problem accelerated. Burglary too was a crime LE was interested in. Not just the big stuff but a tool box stole out of an open door garage even. Now an officer gets annoyed if you expect something done about those things. Your attitude stinks. Do your job. Go after thieves.


Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Re: Radar detectors [Re: AntiGov] #6223089
04/21/18 12:20 PM
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I didn't think his attitude was bad . Kinda told it how it is . Which sucks .


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Re: Radar detectors [Re: Aaron Proffitt] #6223140
04/21/18 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted By: Aaron Proffitt
I didn't think his attitude was bad . Kinda told it how it is . Which sucks .


Spot on.

Calvin only told you the truth.
Want these crimes followed thru with, hire more cops. That will go over like a fart in Sunday school.

Re: Radar detectors [Re: AntiGov] #6223159
04/21/18 02:26 PM
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The police have a very tough job, many of these problems go to the way parents have raised their children. The liberal laws make it hard for a person to protect what's there's and if they do may end up in jailed or sued. The same goes for the police as we have seen on the news lately.
With that said, a person needs to understand their rights and not knowing them is your own fault.

Re: Radar detectors [Re: AntiGov] #6223649
04/22/18 08:12 AM
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For a long time, I've lived and worked around a small municipality that regularly issued around 1,000 tickets/per resident/per year. We have been #1 in the state for citations per residents issued by a long, long margin. I've had a radar detector continuously sitting on my dash for more than a couple decades.

Good detectors cost more than $100. There is little difference between low end detectors. If you're looking to spend under $100 bill know up front that you are getting what you paid for. Frankly, cheap detectors are not worth owning. Cheap detectors lump K band and Ka band together.

Highest rated radar detector for years was the Escort 8500 X50 (discontinued). Since replaced by the Escort X80. https://www.stealthveil.com/best-radar-detector-reviews-2018-top-rated-radar-detectors
We have old model Escort X50 in all of the family vehicles.

Escort allows you to turn bands off/on and displays band being detected on the screen.
Leave POP off, POP is known to give faulty speed readings and there are only a couple small areas in the country that use POP radar. Turn X band off, X band is from the 1940's. Very few agencies run antiquated X band and it produces false alerts in urban areas.
Ka band is always an officer collecting revenue. Every time. There are no false Ka readings.
Laser- hope the officer lights someone up in front of you.
K band- K band could be an officer or it could be a false alarm. If you put competing radar detector brands on a roadway, Cobra & Escort will detect each other and give false K band alarms.
Run "Highway" mode all of the time.

In wide open areas, a good detector will pick up a radar up to seven miles away. So far away that you'll think it's acting up and giving a false reading. In tighter areas with terrain, they give you time but the distance is significantly reduced.
When you get pulled over with a detector, leave it on the dash. Police officers don't care any more or less if it's on the dash. Put it under the seat and you are a deceptive creep. Leave it and let it flash during the stop but hit the mute button.

In my lifetime, I've been pulled over three times without the use of radar/laser that I'm aware of. In each of those cases, I would have been cited if there wasn't a radar detector sitting quietly on the dash. One claimed to visually estimate my speed. One claimed to "pace" me after seeing the detector. One I mistook for a road rage aggressor rather than an officer. In all three of these cases, there wasn't cause for the original traffic stop.

IMHO laser should not be legal for traffic enforcement. If I was to point a laser at motorists I'd be charged. I don't want a laser pointed at my face for any reason. A hundred dollar citation shouldn't be worth my eye sight.

Around here, friends and family of police officers get a bear sticker to display in their rear window. These are color coded stickers used to aid in selective enforcement. While I am not anti cop, this rubs me the wrong way.


It's a Washington state thing.

Last edited by wildflights; 04/22/18 09:28 AM.

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Re: Radar detectors [Re: AntiGov] #6223665
04/22/18 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted By: AntiGov
Made it. 6hrs 2 min

Last 70 miles was fuzzy with revenue generators


I figure that at 65 MPH overall moving average with one gas station stop. Probably 80 while on the highway. Sound about right?

Looks like the Uniden R3 is the top shelf detector now. https://www.vortexradar.com/2017/06/uniden-r1-uniden-r3-radar-detector-review/

Last edited by wildflights; 04/22/18 09:43 AM.

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Re: Radar detectors [Re: Calvin] #6223744
04/22/18 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted By: Calvin
I think we all get that Grandpa.

But there is a stretch through the desert from Vegas to 29 Palms that I've driven a few times. 55 mph if I remember right. Not a house for 100 miles in places it seemed to me. Been told not to drive too fast there as patrolled. I sure don't get that one, but hey..it IS Calif...or the majority of it... so maybe we should feel lucky we don't have to ride our 10 speeds through there.

Danny, that will likely change from state to state. They're state laws here. Petty misd for speeding but can easily get bumped up into "careless" or "reckless" driving if driving like a nut...and those are Misdemeanors (Here anyhow). Next state over...who knows?



I have been on that run.... There's more nowhere there than in nowhere. Mining for Sheetrock mix if that's what it was is the only thing down there.

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