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Posted on 08/14/2013 8:57:09 AM PDT by liizo
Electrical engineering Professor Kamal Sarabandi of University of Michigan is on to something for public safety. He has been working on using radar technology that can scan a person from a distance to detect concealed firearms. Looking forward, just seems like my rights are being violated, and cops may be using to profile. westernshootingjournal.com/technology/radar-for-detecting-concealed-carry-weapon/
What do you all think?
you need a warrant as far as I can determine
you need a warrant as far as I can determine
Not to mention the radiation hazard.
I see a boom in new holsters and outerwear featuring RAM, (Radar Absorbent Material). Sometime I think we are witnessing a new arms race but on a more personal level than we’ve ever seen before. Sort of like ‘Cold War’ at the local level instead of between nations.
I see a future for radar jamming equipment perhaps as small as a cell phone to be carried on the person or as large as one needs to screw with radar near the home. If people can randomly generate radar for invasive purposes, I claim the right to randomly screw with it.
How difficult would it be to build a polarimetric radar detector and jammer?
The police are allowed to invade your privacy. You, comrade, are NOT allowed to screw with police radar. Radar jammers for speed radar exist, but they are illegal. In the Peoples' Democracy of Virginia, you're not even allowed to detect their surveillance with a radar detector. Heil 0bama
“If people can randomly generate radar for invasive purposes, I claim the right to randomly screw with it.”
Yeah, that defense works real good for the people with radar detectors/jammers in their vehicles.
Not easy and not cheap especially at millimeter wavelengths.
Once police deploy this technology, just wearing a radar reflective poncho or whatnot will be seen as probable cause for a stop & frisk. You wouldn’t be wearing it if you weren’t hiding something.
Kamal Sarabandi?
Does the radar have a muslim exception?
As I understand it RAM doesn’t reflect, it absorbs thereby reducing the return back to the Radar, transmitter/receiver.
On the other hand looking into my crystal ball I see a possibility of tuned EMP that will drive the costs of using that technology even higher.
For slightly higher power useage a double layer of mylar with even some aluminum sandwiched between would be helpful although I would recommend only a single layer of higher-density mylar material instead. If you need a demonstration of why two or more layers are a bad idea with anything above medium-power emitters, and you do not mind taking a chance on burning out your test unit, try placing a couple of sheets of mylar or aluminum in a microwave oven for a couple of seconds then view the results afterwards. LE does not use anything above very low-power devices because cooking someone while attempting to radar scan them is not going to make them any friends -and just wait until someone tries to play 'laser tag' with one of the units on-duty.
Note: I come from an RF background; trust what I am warning you about here.
Would the detector alone be cheaper? I guess you could jam the thing with lead.
The current legal status would be linked very strongly to the expectation of privacy. When you are out in public, your expectation of privacy is reduced. According to SCOTUS, in it’s ruling on Terry vs Ohio held that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probable cause to arrest, if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonable belief that the person “may be armed and presently dangerous.
However, the very NATURE of a concealed weapon is the expectation of privacy. It would follow then, that as long as you are not committing, or can not be reasonably suspected as having committed a crime, that a warrant would be necessary to use this device. Further, if the device is used without warrant, without any other reasonable cause, the officer would have no grounds for detention.
But you never know how the courts are going to rule.
It would seem to me though that this technology might be most appropriate for a security checkpoint as it might be better than current detection equipment.
A person with a sheet of aluminum foil in their coat say a hamburger wrapper could cause a false reading and a false stop and generate a complaint of Civil Rights violation.
I think that if the irradiate you without a warrant or your consent... that you can sue them.
I wonder if my stainless steel hip replacement looks like a gun or just an aging hippy?
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