Racial Disparities in Policing in Mill Valley (2022 Report)
Using data from the Mill Valley Police Department, under the Racial and identity Profiling Act of 2015 (RIPA), the MVFREE Police Team found large and persistent racial disparities in Mill Valley police practices, specifically that Black people are detained by Mill Valley police at 6.5 times the rate of White people, and Latinx people are detained at 3.02 times the rate of White people.
KQED Podcast Focuses on Mill Valley: ‘All Eyes Should Be on Marin: A Racial Reckoning in the Bay’s Whitest County’
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, KQED ran a story about racial reckoning in Marin County, a liberal enclave and also the most segregated county in the Bay Area. Mill Valley activists have been pushing local officials to address racial disparities.