National Night Out Returns To Bowie In 2022

BOWIE, MD — The Bowie Police Department will participate in National Night Out 2022 on August 2 as part of a nationwide 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.

The Bowie Police Department will host National Night Out on Tuesday, August 2 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Allen Pond Park, located at 3330 Northview Drive.

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.