Being watched triggers significant changes in human behavior, altering conscious actions and social conformity. Ryan and Dixon look into the rapidly growing use of a privately owned company to collect public information for the purposes of law enforcement. Flock Safety now operates in over 6,000 communities and 49 states with a network exceeding 120,000 cameras. They look into the investors, their potential motives and weigh the pros and cons (mostly cons) of a seemingly ubiquitous surveillance state. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."