Not long ago, some Zhonghe residents complained that a motorbike had been vandalized in front of their house. When the police accompanied them to the borough warden's office to investigate the camera images, they found that four out of five cameras in the neighborhood weren't operational. They weren't broken or vandalized: they were dummy cameras. Like scarecrows in a field, they looked real, but did nothing.
不久前，台北縣中和市有民眾抱怨，家門口機車遭人破壞，在警察陪同下到里長辦公室調閱監視器畫面時，才發現鄰里中的監視器竟有五分之四都沒有功能，不是當機、壞掉，就是沒有畫面，就像稻田裡的稻草人一樣，只是虛張聲勢，中看不中用。