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Our neighborhood considered installing a commercial camera solution to curtail occasional vandalism at our pool.

We looked at the bid and decided not to do it. The reasoning:
- The cost would have covered twenty years of the typical sort of vandalism we see (petty destruction of patio furniture, etc.)
- We would need a volunteer to monitor it or pay even more for a monitored solution
- Even if we catch something, it's very likely that we end up with an anonymous picture of a person we don't know, often times possibly a minor. These petty vandalism events aren't big enough to get that picture on the news, so unless we turned our Facebook page into a witch hunting operation and the perp happened to be known by somebody, all we have is a photo of the jerk.

We have considered dummy cameras, but I'm guessing they lose their effectiveness after the first even where nobody gets caught and the trespassers realize they're not real.