when I lived closer to the city I ended up with a few cameras covering the street, the driveway, front door..

I caught around a dozen or so car break ins, random trespasses 'looking around' - and a few other things..

Not one of those recordings was going to get police to do anything.

And now that ring / nest etc are everywhere, most people walking the old neighborhood are wearing a hoody covering their head and a 'it's normal now that we had a pandemic mask' of some sort.

Frankly I think it's best to deter with multiple lights and sounds like op mentioned, otherwise you just catch a recording of a minor crime, and it might make you feel good that you could recongnize the person in the video at the corner gas station or bar down the street, but it doesn't let you stop them or do anything to them.

in my small data point experiences, I understand after a hurricane, some parts of Florida had a different police priority announcement, and places like Texas allow the use of force including deadly force to stop a theft of property,

but here having cameras and weapons is not enough, it's actually expected by the 'bad guys'