Washington’s Halloween night will come with city-organized safety teams on the street, a string of police-run “Safe Haven” events across the city and, after midnight, the start of the District’s youth curfew hours for the weekend, according to the Metropolitan Police Department and the office of the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice.
The deputy mayor’s office said its Safety Go Teams will be deployed from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. at 15 locations across the city on Saturday, according to an MPD release. The teams are volunteers who do not do law enforcement; the release says they engage families, watch for problems and help de-escalate situations.
MPD districts are also hosting free daytime and evening events for families on Saturday, according to the department’s Safe Haven events page:
| Host | Event | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sixth District | Harvest Fest | Noon to 3 p.m. | 4551 Benning Road SE |
| First District | Haunted house (also ran Thursday and Friday) | 4 to 8 p.m. | 101 M St. SW |
| Second District | Trunk-or-treat | 4 to 7 p.m. | 3320 Idaho Ave. NW |
| Youth and Family Engagement Division | Maze | 6 to 10 p.m. | 5002 Hayes St. NE |
| Third District | Halloween event | 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. | 1620 V St. NW |
The District’s youth curfew, which the D.C. Council made permanent in July, applies again overnight. Weekend curfew hours begin at 12:01 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, so the first curfew hour after Halloween night begins at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, according to MPD’s curfew page. As of Thursday, police had not announced any extended curfew zones for the Halloween weekend, FOX 5 DC reported.
Halloween night has not historically been an outlier for crime in the city. An Inquisitor analysis of MPD data published this week found that reported crime on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 from 2023 through 2025 averaged at or below each year’s October daily average, as The Inquisitor reported.
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