Street Surveillance Cameras

I wonder if everyone knows this (I didn't know, I'm quite ignorant 😅) Imagine a situation where something very dangerous, or even life-threatening, happens. As a pedestrian, you don't have a dashcam, and there aren't any cars nearby that can provide dashcam footage. If you then try to find evidence by asking the police if you can access nearby surveillance cameras, you might encounter a situation like, 'It's not currently a case, so we can't directly access the surveillance footage.' I don't think the police are necessarily wrong in handling it this way. Surveillance cameras involve the privacy of others and cannot be casually accessed or used as a tool for personal vendettas or investigating others. However, from another perspective, I think this situation is indeed a bit contradictory. For someone who has just been through a frightening experience, or feels they narrowly escaped an accident, it might be difficult to confirm exactly what happened if there's no other video evidence at the moment. This is the version revised by AI (the original version was a bit biased 😅)