- This event has passed.
2023 National Neighborhood Night Out – Hunters Ridge Subdivision
October 3, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Clinton NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHT OUT
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
Clinton’s Neighborhood Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live.
NNO enhances the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while bringing back a true sense of community.
Call Lt. Mike Kelly at (601) 924-5252 to add your neighborhood to this year’s event.
HISTORY OF NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The origins of National Night Out day begin with Matt Peskin, way back in 1970. Peskin was a regular volunteer for the Lower Merion Community Watch program — which worked with the Lower Merion Police Department in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Peskin would often patrol local areas and soon introduced a newsletter on community successes and local volunteer work. This was when he realized that new content for the newsletter was very difficult to find. He began reaching out to the surrounding communities for help and noticed they all had local groups of neighborhood watches but no way to connect to or even identify other groups. Neighborhood watches as a concept began in the U.S. in the late 1960s. As incidents of criminal activities rose in this period, the collective consensus was that the U.S. needed local watch groups that were focused on residential areas. The National Sheriffs’ Association partly funded the creation of the National Neighborhood Watch program in the 1970s, and local groups have been contributing to safety and security since then.