re radar detector detectors ragee vdoe vak ed edu randy agee writes it used to be that the only way the law could be enforced was for an officer to actually see the radar detector not any more many law enforcement agencies are now using radar detector detectors right a super sensitive receiver that is capable of picking up rf from the radar detector itself my first reaction was no way but guess again these little buggers really work and the police are writing citations right and left for people using radar detectors one news story quoted an officer as saying that he had found the radar detector in all of the cars he stopped except one and he could never figure out where it was but he knew it was there this tends to make one assume there are few false arrest from what i understand about radar dectectors all they are is a passive device much like the radio in your car they work as an antenna picking up that radar signals that the radar gun sends out therefore there would be no way of detecting a radar detector any more than there would be of detecting whether some one had a radio in their car neal howland nhowland matt ksu ksu edu
