In the Past year there have been 10,000 part 1 crimes in Daton, Ohio. That means 10,000 murders, rapes, and assaults. Ross McNutt believes project Angelfire can change all that. The project is a plane with a high-powered camera strapped to its base, photographing and storing every moment of a day. He has proven that this system works. It has let police and law enforcement agencies remove dangerous people from the street in hours. It could also be used to track known criminals and discover more about their associates and colleagues than we would have found out through traditional policing. Though this may feel like a loss of privacy, the only people who should really fear this surveillance are criminals. For the average person, this technology just means a safer city with better, more targeted policing.

Here, many people would object that we couldn’t trust a government with this level of power. They would suggest that this technology is wide open to misuse. This level of access and knowledge would leave every person with a private life open to blackmail and stalking. It would only take one person with low-level clearance and all your daily habits could be sold to the nearest tabloid. So though this type of technology might stop crimes, it would also set a dangerous precedent. With technology advancing so much, we need to decide how much privacy we as a people need and how much access to our personal life our government deserves.