"This is my budget proposal. With just a little expenditure from the municipal government, we can install 24-hour cameras on main streets, high crime rate areas, and official facilities...."
When the budget request, coming from Special Service Team Three to the Bureau of Anomaly Management, and then from the Bureau to the municipal government, the places it passed through went crazy.
"Has this guy gone mad? Installing cameras throughout the entire city? Does he have any idea how much budget that would require.....huh, it's not that expensive. Is it because camera technology has improved, and because they can be produced domestically? No, this isn't about the money at all, it's not about the money!!"
The development of the era turned many impossibilities into possibilities.
In another timeline, they also began using cameras on a small scale domestically around the year 2000, and by around 2004, they started to become widespread.