From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-11-03 16:57, AJL wrote:   
   > On 11/3/25 5:38 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-11-03 06:47, AJL wrote:   
   >>> On 11/2/25 9:43 PM, Marion wrote:   
      
   ...   
      
      
   >>>> Yup. I've had Google Maps warn me of them. Someone is reporting   
   >>>> them. Maybe the CHP?   
   >>>   
   >>> I doubt cops would report on themselves. In my case it was definitely   
   >>> other   
   >>> civilian users.   
   >>>> I used to use a radar detector back east, where there's a speed trap   
   >>>> at every intersection, but they're not so much out here in California.   
   >   
   >   
   >> > Funny story. I think you know where I'm retired from. I was working   
   >> > radar on a local street. Got a guy going way over. When he got out   
   >>> of the car and saw he was caught, he grabbed his radar detector off   
   >>> the dash and started stomping on it cause it apparently wasn't   
   >>> working so good...  ;)   
   >>   
   >> :-D   
   >   
   >   
   > Another funny story. As a motorcycle cop I worked mostly traffic. When I   
   > wasn't doing accident investigation I often worked citizen complaints. One   
   > guy called in a complaint of speeders on his residential street. So when I   
   > had some free time I went to his house. I tried to contact him but he   
   > wasn't home so I parked my MC in his driveway and worked radar on his   
   > street and would have left a note for him so that he knew I had been there   
   > working his complaint. But guess who was one of the ones I caught? Yep,   
   > him.   
      
   LOL :-D   
      
   >   
   >> Detectors are illegal here. Even carrying one might get you a fine.   
   >   
   > In the early days of police radar they were large machines that had to be   
   > carried in cars and stayed fixed on the roadway constantly so detectors   
   > worked pretty well. But later we went to handheld guns (easily carried on a   
   > MC). When in use the gun was held pointed at the ground until the the car   
   > was in range and then it was pointed at the car. I got a reading about the   
   > same time the guy's detector would go off and thus he had no time to slow   
   > down so the detector didn't do much good.   
   >   
   > I don't know anyone that has a detector these days but I see Amazon has   
   > them for sale...   
      
   Apparently (I say apparently because I have never owned such a device)   
   the common type of detector also does interference. At the first   
   detection of the radar, it interferes with it so that the measurement   
   fails. It beeps; the driver slows, and the second time the car is within   
   limits. This is highly illegal.   
      
   There is another type which is only a sensor. It works here with the   
   type of radar that is constantly on catching the traffic automatically.   
   It is also illegal here.   
      
   And then there is the legal type, which is a device without a display,   
   or not a graphical display, which beeps if you are near the stored   
   location of a known radar. Obviously it has a GPS receiver. I don't know   
   why people bought this instead of a navigator. Maybe because they are   
   illegal in some countries, thus used in disguise?   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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