Joe Rivano Barros

San Francisco

Senior Editor at Mission Local

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SFPD arrests suspect for daylight killing of man in Mission District home

6 days ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

The San Francisco Police Department on Thursday said officers arrested a man suspected of shooting and killing a 19-year-old in a Mission District home last Friday. The suspect, 21-year-old Trayvon Williams, was arrested in Novato on Wednesday by officers from the SFPD, the Novato police department, and the Marin County SWAT team, according to the SFPD. He was taken into custody and booked into San Francisco jail on May 7 at 11:44 p.m., according to jail records.
Mission Local a finalist for 10 California Journalism Awards

1 week ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

Mission Local has been given a finalist nod in 10 categories at the California Journalism Awards — the contest honoring the best in reporting across the state. We’re finalists in the following categories: community-focused reporting, enterprise news, homelessness reporting, best illustration (thanks to our very talented cartoonist, Neil Ballard), in-depth reporting, informational graphic, local election coverage, profile, public service, and writing.
Here’s a map of where SFPD officers work private security side gigs

1 week ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros |Kelly Waldron

When Supervisor Jackie Fielder and Assistant Chief David Lazar sparred at a San Francisco city hearing this week, two questions arose: Is it good for public safety that the city’s police officers can go work private security after work, and are those officers spread out equitably across San Francisco’s neighborhoods? Lazar said yes, full stop. The program “is a big win for the community, the public, the city, and for the department,” he said.
S.F. supervisors ask: Why hasn’t SFPD addressed overtime abuse?

2 weeks ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

San Francisco supervisors grilled the city’s assistant police chief at a city hearing on Wednesday, asking why the police department has failed to address “systemic failures” of police overtime that are years-long, widespread, and well-documented by the city.
SFPD arrest suspect in fatal Tenderloin shooting

1 month ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

San Francisco police officers arrested a suspect after a fatal shooting at the edge of the Tenderloin on Monday afternoon — San Francisco’s fifth homicide of the year. At 5:29 p.m., San Francisco police officers came to the corner of Turk and Mason streets, near the Powell BART station, responding to reports of a shooting. They found a victim “suffering from a gunshot wound” and rendered aid, according to the department. Medics were called, but the victim was declared dead on-site.
‘Abundance,’ darling agenda of centrist Democrats, comes home to San Francisco

1 month ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

Michael Pollan wasted no time cutting to the heart of the matter: The top-selling recently released book “Abundance,” a 288-page manifesto on creating a “liberalism that builds,” may no longer be relevant. “It’s almost like a sick parody of your book,” Pollan said of President Trump’s actions in D.C. — cutting a trail through the federal bureaucracy, firing tens of thousands of workers, cancelling the kinds of research grants the book seeks to reform.
Waymo, San Francisco strike deal to let robotaxis 'map' airport

1 month ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Eskenazi |Joe Rivano Barros

Multiple sources have confirmed that Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration has struck a deal with Waymo to let the autonomous vehicle company into San Francisco International Airport to “map” its environs for future autonomous use.
In last-minute reversal, S.F. homeless families avoid eviction — for now

2 months ago | missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu |Joe Rivano Barros

Two San Francisco families who were set to be evicted from their homeless shelters on Monday night have won a reprieve following protests by advocates and several press stories highlighting their plight, according to Matt Alexander, an advocate working with the families.
S.F. police shoot man who purportedly shot at SFPD drone, officers

2 months ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

In a possible first, a suspect in the Outer Sunset today fired upon a San Francisco police drone — and, later, at officers — before police returned fire and sent him to the hospital with a non-life-threatening gun wound. The incident may be the first instance of a San Francisco Police Department drone being fired upon — the department only began using drones last year. It is unclear if the drone was hit.
SFPD looking for suspect who shot & killed man by Alemany public housing

2 months ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

San Francisco police officers are searching for a suspect after a man was shot and killed Friday morning outside the Alemany public housing complex, on the south side of Bernal Heights. At 6:56 a.m., according to the San Francisco Police Department, officers with Ingleside Station were called out to the 900 block of Ellsworth Street by Highway 280, where Ellsworth winds its way through the 151-unit Alemany complex.