This kind of phenomenon was absurd enough in reality, and it was even more absurd in the Conan World.
Fujino had once thought about having Hiroki help build a system similar to the Eye of Heaven, but when it came to practical operation...
He, the client father, was almost dragged into cyberspace by Hiroki Sawada and given a sound thrashing.
This plan could not be said to be as absurd as spanning Mount Qomolangma; it could only be said to be as basically impossible as tiling the Great Wall.
Right now, most of the surveillance camera data feeds controlled by Hiroki were obtained from network-connected cameras installed by various businesses and private homes. Local Japanese police surveillance was practically non-existent, and you could hardly expect him to conjure it out of thin air.
As for why they didn't install it, you would have to ask the bureaucrats why they didn't. One could only say that Japan had its own unique national conditions, and as for whether it would break down at a critical moment or have a hard drive explosion, nobody knew.
If Hiroki was already like this, then the police went without saying.
It really wasn't that Officer Megure didn't want to pull surveillance footage; it was mainly that there weren't any surveillance cameras available to pull!
Hiroki could hack directly without thinking too much, but you as a police officer pulling someone else's surveillance—did you have a search warrant to cooperate with the investigation?
This was extremely infuriating.
In the end, they could only resort to the Power of Thought to leave enough breathing room for the detectives.
Come to think of it, if there were a surveillance penetration rate like the one from Fujino's past life, Detective Conan wouldn't need to be called Detective Conan at all.