Recomendations for dash cams

Can anybody recommend any good dash cams? im looking for one i can hardwire to come on and off with the ignition and that has decent image quality, I can mount it either in or out of the vehicle.

Due to a recent wreck where i got screwed over due to a crooked cop and realising how stupid people are on the road today ( dummy rolled a stop sign, then saw me coming so he just stopped in the middle of the intersection) i want to install a camera in both of my vehicles


any suggestions are welcome, thanks

 

Ask the "crooked cop" where he got his Eagle Eye system.

 

Thought about this, but which way will your cam be pointing? If you get rear-ended or broadsided, the a forward-facing cam won't catch it, even with a wide-angle lens.

 

is a rear facing cam really necessary? or a side-facing one?

I would think that more often than not, a front facing cam would "protect" against fraudulent accidents more so than any other... I doubt many of us would use the side of our car or our back ends to cause an accident.

 

toward the front, my biggest issue is with he said she said cases

like in this pic posted below, I claimed the other driver merged into my driverside fender and caused the accident, other driver claimed i rear ended her with the passanger side of my truck, i had a witness that said my story was true but couldnt testify due to graduating from the same school as me....and the officer in question and i have a not so good relation, i got the ticket and was found at fault...but a dash cam tells no lies and is an unbiased witness.






oh and maineah I didnt mean to come off as bashing police officers, I am good friends with plenty of them. However you occasionally get a few bad apples in every profession.

 

No offence taken we hear it all the time it's all in how one looks at the situation. You might look at Police auctions I really have no ideal if they sell the old systems or not I'm sure sitting in a closet at some PD there are old tape driven cameras it very nice stuff so a new system is going to be big bucks they are all electronic now and the cameras record front and rear with sound. What you might look into are helmet/race car cams they are pretty reasonable.

 

If you want to do this on the cheap, and with good quality, why not something like a GOPro. The older HD or 720p models are pretty cheap, and mounts for cars are very common.