Should there be a backdoor built into new communication technologies so the government can easily surveille the bad guys (or the people they think are the bad guys) and risk 3rd parties being able to make use of these vulnerabilities, I mean backdoors?

If you believe the government, this is about where their surveillance capability is with respect to some new communications technologies.

Domestic Abuse by Jeremy

The technology becomes ever harder to crack the technology to crack it because ever more powerful and easier to obtain. These days I have to VPN my home network just to keep out the 15 year old next door.