Law-Enforcement grade system

Do the police have better quality stuff or something? The videos I've seen from their cars seem to be worse than what you can buy from Amazon for $200.

That said, the police do have slightly different requirements -- in particular, much of their footage needs to be saved and archived for a certain amount of time, reliability is even more important (that said, it still seems to break for some reason an awful lot of the time) and there's some "hooks" such as the camera may go on automatically if the lights go on, stuff like that.

I do realize that there may be some bias in what I see in that police have had dashcams for longer than the general public, so I may be mentally comparing older police dashcam footage to modern consumer dashcam footage, but ... I don't think so.