National Night Out Returns To Littleton In 2021

LITTLETON, CO — A National Night Out 2021 event in Littleton Aug. 3 is part of a national push to strengthen police and community relations.

The nationwide event “promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer,” according to the National Association of Town Watch, the organization that founded the annual early August event in 1984.

Littleton Police Department's National Night Out:

• Where: Littleton Museum Parking Lot, 6028 Gallup St.
• When: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 3

The Littleton event will include K-9s, school resource officers, patrol officers, police cars, the local SWAT team, a fire engine party truck, the Bemis Library Craft Tent and food trucks, the department said.

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Since 1984, communities across the country have held National Night Out events on the first Tuesday of August. Block parties, festivals, parades, cookouts and other community events have been popular ways to celebrate the outreach-focused event.

More than 2 million Americans took part in the first National Night Out. Now, the event is celebrated in more than 16,000 communities across all 50 states, according to the National Association of Town Watch.

Many National Night Out events are back in 2021 after widespread cancellations last summer due to the coronavirus pandemic.