National Night Out
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TypeNational
Significancecommunity-police awareness-raising
DateFirst Tuesday in August
2024dateAugust 6
| National Night Out | |
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 A band plays on the Mississippi River during National Night Out in downtown Minneapolis in August 2010 | |
| Type | National |
| Significance | community-police awareness-raising |
| Date | First Tuesday in August |
| 2024 date | August 6 |
| 2025 date | August 5 |
| 2026 date | August 4 |
| 2027 date | August 3 |
National Night Out is a community policing awareness-raising event in the United States, held the first Tuesday of August.[1][2]
National Night Out was established by Matt Peskin in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has been held annually since 1984. In the United States, the event is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch.[3] National Night Out began simply with neighbors turning on their porch lights and sitting in front of their homes.[3] The first National Night Out involved 2.5 million residents across 400 communities in 23 states; National Night Out 2016 involved 38 million residents in 16,000 communities across the United States.[4]