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Meet Your Neighbors and Combat Crime National Night Out (NNO) is an annual community-building campaign that promotes strong police-community partnersips and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live and work. NNO is a capstone event which highlights community-police partnerships established or enhanced throughout the year. National Night Out The purpose of National Night Out is to build strong partnerships between the police and communi- ties and to promote crime aware- ness programs such as Neighbor- hood Community Watch groups. According to NATW, last year’s event was the largest ever that involved 37 million people in 15,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories and military bases worldwide. The City of Arlington has participat- ed in National Night Out for over 20 years. Without your help, NNO would not be possible. If you would like to help the City of Arlington take a proactive stance against crime and compete for another national award, please register for National Night Out in your community. To become involved, contact Victoria.Johnson, 817-459-5732, [email protected] -14-