Is it legal to use radar detectors on reservation?
Use them with caution. The best way to avoid tickets is not to exceed the speed limit. Citations are expensive. Arizona has added surcharges to most offenses. Even if the fine is reduced for some mitigating circumstance the surcharges remain. While most of the equipment is low-tech, a radar detector is no license to speed. Airplanes are sometimes brought in by the Highway Patrol. A “catch” vehicle is parked at both ends of the trap with its radar on. When cars pass the vehicles, the ones with radar detectors tend to increase speed going into the center of the trap. The speed is measured by a pilot in a small plane circling overhead. A roadblock at a low point in the road, or behind a curve detains- and tickets- the offenders in the middle of the “trap”. This operation is manpower intensive: fewer tickets are given out per man-hour than if the officers were working independently, but they are able to apprehend violators that may often not be caught otherwise. Fair warning: In Arizona it
