What got you into detectors?

[OkeefenokeeJoe]

I just retired after serving 35 years as a LEO. The first 10 years of my career was spent in a traffic enforcement unit.

I started using a radar detector a few years ago after observing ever-increasing unnecessary and unethical use of radar/laser during speed enforcement ... this, of course, under the guise or public safety but, realistically, for no other reason than revenue generation. Younger officers, for the most part, seem to whole-heartedly buy into this notion of heavy handed enforcement of speeding laws, throwing all discretion to the wind. They appear to have no problem, through whatever deceptive tactics, of writing mass citations to the hard-working citizenry, a practice which is generally endorsed by money hungry municipal administrations.

When the "citations at all cost" mentality became the norm, rather than the exception, I knew it was time to protect myself and my family from excessive enforcement since being a part of the "brotherhood," for the most part, no long meant anything.

Currently, I operate a V1 in my personal vehicle. I have BEL 995 detectors in both my wife's car, and in my daughter's car.

OkeefenokeeJoe

[Eloi]

Hey Eloi where are you from?

Kanada , which had become a nest
a fanatic-speed-talibans-money-driven-cityhall-bythebookcopper.

And to facilitate the distribution of speed ticket , what better move
than ban the rds ?

With the points system they chase you with a long leash
while driving even outside the province -get a ticket in collaborative us states ,
you pay the us ticket + loose the points on your home permit,,,
speed is the new prohibition - anti-social behaviour.

Basta.

[Eloi]

When the "citations at all cost" mentality became the norm,

OkeefenokeeJoe

Thanks for your testimony ....99.999 % of on-duty-officials say it is not true !!!
They Really do all this for your Safety ....

[WDG]

Back home in small-town Nebraska, we had a State Patrol officer who took a little too much pride in his work... You know, the kind who'd write you for 1mph over. In fact, they all seemed to relish lording themselves over us in the days of the awful 55. Knew I had to get something so I ordered the Gul (see my sig, below) from Sharper Image. Replaced it later with the awesome first generation Passport.

We seem to be back to tickets as a general revenue source, just like those days. Soon, they'll have everything so regulated with technology that we won't be able to sneeze without paying a fine for it.

[OkeefenokeeJoe]

My wife found RDs annoying until about 2 years ago when, early on a Saturday morning in a tiny little town just outside Statesboro, GA, she got hit with radar. She was driving my handicapped daughter to Augusta to have handicapped controls installed in my daughter's new car. She was unaware that this little one-traffic-light town had extended its city limits waaaaay outside the actual town-proper and had abruptly lowered the speed limit from 55 to 35. Because it was about 8 am on a Saturday morning in the middle of nowhere, there was virtually zero traffic. Nevertheless, the officer felt that she was endangering the safety of others and wrote her a citationk for 53 in 35 zone. After that, she insisted on a radar detector in her car, and it has used it ever since.

OkeefenokeeJoe

[declansdad]

What got me into detectors?.....my right foot!

Michael

[NormSky]

I had both the Cobra Trapshooter and Uniden RD9XL in the 80's/90's also. My Dad bought both of the us the Cobra. I love the analog needle for reading signal strength. If it was a false the needle wasn't rather jagged compared to actual radar gun producing a smoother reading.

Since the late 1990's it's been the V1 especially since it reigned, and still does, in X-band radar which is still used in Ohio and a couple of other states. Waze.com takes the place of the CB with much better range.

[icantdrive55]

My high school friend (back in 1983) had a BEL x/k radar detector and I thought it was cool when we used it on a road trip! I just had to by a radar detector...then I bought a "cheap" Radio Shack x/k radar detector. Had that for a couple of years before I bought a Cobra x/k 3100 radar detector. Man, that was (to me) a solid performer back then in the late 80's or so.

[saabturbo]

When I was a kid I always read auto magazines, and always thought to myself "why would you want a detector without the arrows?"

When I got older and got a decent job, I bought a valentine one

[WDG]

There were no arrows when I was a kid. Later on, the indians invented them.