National Night Out is America's Night Out Against Crime, a proven, inexpensive and enjoyable program. In 2007, National Night Out was celebrated in 11,000 communities with more than 35 million people including citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic and neighborhood groups, businesses and local officials.

Organized by the Neighborhood Crime Watch Unit of the Boston Police Department, Boston's National Night Out celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of over 600 active Neighborhood Crime Watches working year round build safe neighborhoods where we live, work and play.

National Night Out 2007 in Boston was a month-long celebration that generated massive crowds at events including "National Night Out Name Tag Day at Fenway Park." Open Houses in all eleven Police Districts, a Poster Contest in the schools and after-school programs, and a Poster Contest Awards Luncheon. The celebration culminated in Boston's largest ever single National Night Out Celebration honoring Boston's Top Ten Crime Watch Groups and the Crime Fighter of the Year. This year, "Unity Through Community" concluded when we welcomed Mayor Thomas M. Menino and our new Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis to Boston's historic Franklin Park Zoo to present awards before a crowd of 8,000 National Night Out celebrators. In addition to these large events, the people of Boston held more than 150 individual neighborhood block parties.