You could have saved the cost of the detector by just driving the speed limit. How can it be a trap if you did it to yourself? By the way, NO, we don't have to give you 5, 6, 10 mph over the limit before we stop you. Breaking the law no matter how you look at it is like being "a little pregnant or a little dead". You either are or you are not. you either did or did not. So don't cry about being "trapped" because your radar detector didn't warn you that you were about to be caught violating the law. And yes, we do catch criminals while working traffic, when is the last time a burglar, bank robber, child molester or drug smuggler attempted to escape the law by carrying his bounty on his back headed out of town to escape or aviod prosecution? Criminals drive too!