Surveillance technology without accountability is a recipe for authoritarianism, but with strong guardrails and transparency, it can help stop crime, including crimes committed by law enforcement. These software programs can log users’ every keystroke and click, and all that information belongs to the public. In other words, surveillance technology is responsible for taking 50 crooked cops off the beat. A better debate than if technologies should be used to fight crime is whether public records laws should change as a result of tech’s use in law enforcement, and they should. The public should have greater and more granular visibility into how the technology is being used.