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Is it normal for people to set up surveillance cameras in their own home? Are break-ins that common? I just assume no-one will bother with my shitty flat.
Not in my area, but there are plenty of areas where not having a security system is a liability. Most of my neighbors have Ring doorbells, yet the only breakin was ~20 years ago and it was a kid in the neighborhood that everyone knew. Oh, and we had one parked car get hit by a drunk driver, probably a neighbour as well.
Property crime just isn't something that happens here. I'm in neither the poor area nor rich area, and my city has a higher average income than much of the state, but doesn't have any absurdly rich people, those all live in the next town over with the actual rich people (not the richest in the state, but probably the richest in the county). I don't even think there's a good place to buy drugs here, we're sandwiched between two larger cities, which is probably where people go for their fix.
If you're going to burgle someone, you'd either go where more people park on the street (everyone has garages here), to a wealthier neighborhood (we're pretty middle class), or somewhere with lots single people/dinks. Two blocks in any direction would be much better for burglary than my neighborhood, and any neighboring city would be better. We even had the sheriff in our neighborhood until recently (lots of extra police patrols), and the new one is a couple blocks away in the next city.
Nothing happens here. Well, except one murder suicide recently (father killed his wife and himself), we have our fair share of mental illness from keeping up with the Joneses. But property crime just doesn't happen. Good luck to someone trying to find something to steal in my house, everything has been wrecked by my kids.
Around here in New Jersey, yes. People typically replace their doorbell switches with camera devices from Google or Amazon. People even set them up at their apartment doors. Dedicated NVR systems are also commonly installed in houses. In my case, I am not especially concerned about break-ins. Break-ins are rare in my neighborhood and I don't think a camera system would do much to prevent one anyway. There have just been some nuisances over the past year including my bird feeder camera getting swiped and someone repeatedly letting their dog poop right next to my house without cleaning it up. I'd like to be able to have recordings of problems like that so I can maybe do something about it. Also, I like the idea of being able to check on things when I'm away.