Full Name
Gerry Bello
Gerry Bello is a journalist and researcher for the Columbus Free Press. He covers Human Rights, Technology, National Security and Election issues. He is a graduate of Antioch College with a degree in Computer Security. In the computer industry he specialized in networked industrial control systems, malware detection and interecption user access control and data theft detection including work for Fortune 500 companies. He doesnt' work for those people anymore. He did not like them when he did work for them. He has also been a street level anti-fascist activist for more than 20 years. He likes cats.
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When the Klan comes to town, Dayton is for whites only
Many people hear the name “Ku Klux Klan” and think of the deep South and unreconstructed neo-confederates riding at night with support from the city fathers and some obese caricature of a sheriff. That image is a convenient alibi of denial for those living in the deep North – as Ohio, Indiana and…
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Update on “Smart” Columbus: Shotspotter Surveillance Installed on the Hilltop
The “ShotSpotter” voice surveillance system is being promoted by Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther and Deputy Police Chief Bash as a crime fighting tool capable of locating a gunshot within a 20-foot radius and determining the type and caliber of the weapon.
The ShotSpotter records everything it hears…
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Rally to Protest the Brutal Beating of Timothy Davis in Columbus
It is not easy being number one. Columbus is the best in the nation at only one thing. When it comes to the killing of black people, the Columbus Police Department is the New York Yankees, a dynasty team of history. Although they end more black lives per capita than any other metropolis in the…
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Will police body cameras usher in a new surveillance regime?
Since the beginning of the recent protest movement around the deaths of multiple unarmed African American men at the hands of police in multiple states there has been a push for police to wear body cameras. In the Tamir Rice and John Crawford III cases here in Ohio, video exists in the public…