Registration now open for this year’s ‘Night Out Against Crime’

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It’s one of the most fun nights of the summer – hundreds of neighborhoods around West Seattle, and thousands elsewhere, celebrating community and crimefighting as part of the annual Night Out Against Crime. Despite cuts in the Seattle Police crime-prevention-coordinator staff, Night Out is on, according to word just in from Mark Solomon, who’s the coordinator for precincts including ours. He says Night Out this year is on Tuesday, August 2nd, and you can register your block party (which means you get to close the street, as long as it’s not an arterial) right now! Just go here. There’s a Night Out page on Facebook, too – find that here. And as we say every year, we would love to feature your party as part of WSB coverage – if you wouldn’t mind a photojournalist stopping by, please let us know the address (here’s how to reach us) before party night! (And if we don’t make it, please share a photo, as it’s great to show everyone in West Seattle as many of the neighbors and friends they just haven’t yet met!)

rw June 9, 2011 (3:14 pm)

I think we live in a seam between two or even three neighborhood watch block parties. How do you find out about existing neighborhood watch groups, or should I just wander between the two or three groups that I am surrounded by on Aug. 2 evening?

Livin Inna City June 9, 2011 (3:55 pm)

This year the city has provided an option for people hosting block parties to list them on a citywide map if they choose to.
So I’d check here: http://www.seattle.gov/police/events/nightoutevents.htm closer to the event and see if the organizers have added their events.

Kelly June 9, 2011 (4:16 pm)

rw: here’s an older article with some links that might help:
https://westseattleblog.com/2010/02/new-online-group-for-west-seattle-block-watch-captains-network

Maybe you can ask about your block there. If you don’t have a block watch, you should consider starting one! (My primary duty: coordinating an annual party for Night Out. It’s tons of fun and good to keep neighbor relationships alive and healthy).