The national “Night Out” Crime Prevention event gets underway on the evening of Aug 4 and is always popular in West Seattle.

It is designed to heighten crime prevention awareness, increase neighborhood support in anti-crime efforts, and unite our communities. It is a great chance to learn about crime prevention, while also celebrating your community and spending time with your neighbors.

Night Out in Seattle
Seattle has had a long history of supporting Night Out. The program has been growing every year, with over 1,400 neighborhoods participating each year. This type of community participation is what makes Seattle a great place to live.

The event is a unique opportunity to bring your neighbors together, welcome new neighbors, talk about crime prevention and Block Watch efforts, and mainly just have a great time with food, music, games - whatever you want. The creativity we've seen of what neighborhoods come up with is amazing. Some gatherings are just a few households; others expand into large block parties.

Night Out Against Crime is an opportunity for individual neighborhoods to renew their commitment to the following:

• Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness
• Generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime programs
• Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships
• Send a message to criminals that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.

To see a partial list and map of local night out events and the times they start see this link:
http://www.seattle.gov/police/nightout/nightoutevents.htm

Here's a quick list of events that registered on the Seattle.gov website.

• 2600 block of 41st Ave SW
• 61st Ave. SW (near Admiral Way SW)
• Frater Ave SW (near Schmitz Park)
• 3400 block of 41st Ave. SW
• 37th Ave SW between SW Lander and SW Stevens
• 2844 SW Dakota
• 5436 36th Ave SW
• 25th Ave SW between Juneau and Findlay
• 6000 block of 37th SW (this is a BBQ)
• 6300 block of 41st Ave SW
• 6303 45th Ave SW
• Alley between 44th Ave SW and California Ave SW
• 7114 31st Ave SW
• 9000 17th ave SW
• 9400 34th Ave SW
• 9719 33rd Ave SW
• 1000 32nd Ave SW
• SW 105TH ST BETWEEN 35TH AND 39TH