The way things are today, regular radar detectors only help a little. You're going to have to spend top dollar to get any "protection" at all. I still would recommend one, but it's not going to save you 80% of the time.
As for the pullover. Saying you did it and everyone else did it is pretty 3rd grade. The fact is you were speeding, and he probably picked you because you were at the end of the line. Having a sports car made it easy. I think most of us have been in that situation. I haven't had that happen in the Mustang yet, but it's happened. Heck, I've even been profiled at a gang task force checkpoint in the Olds.
I certainly agree that the ricers have made things easier. Kids and cars will always do that. When I was that age, ground glow, tint, and a stereo would get you pulled over nightly. They never left you alone. It's nice to see it's someone else's turn.
. As far as radar detectors, I used one for about 1 month once. The thing drove me crazy with all it's beeping and false alarms. Besides that, I've never used one again in 25 years of driving and I speed ALL the time no matter what I've driven. I've only gotten 6 speeding tickets in my life with 3 of them being 20 years or more ago, and the last one 6 or so years ago. 
, the lights go on (holy **** those lights are bright). so he comes to my window so quickly he must have ran. he does the usual lisence and registration., where are you going, that ****. so i give him my lisence and while im fishing for my registration he was talking to me about my exhaust system; about how its more "rumblier than stock". he was not complementing me by any stretch of the imagination. i told him that there were indeed cats on it. during this conversation he asks me three times if ive been drinking, which started to piss me off, but hey i guess hes gotta do his job. he also commented on my window tint, about how its a "little too dark". by the time i got my registration (which i had been holding the whole time during the conversation
