all year round, teaching them to stay healthy and physically fit. they play basketball, pick up trash in the neighborhood, they even impress the chief of police with their push-up skills. it s all part of building trust and keeping these kids off the streets and out of trouble. how do kids respond to you guys being police officers? at the beginning they were a little nervous. later they come around. they want to be next to you. that s how you know you are building the trust in them. we have to have some understanding where these kids come from. sometimes they are showing anger because dad is not in their life, because something s not right in school. so we have to sit down and talk with them and let them know everything s going to be okay. reporter: the free program includes students from elementary school to high school like 15-year-old jamari harris. it keeps us doing something positive and out of the streets you. reporter: have you bonded with the officers? yes, i have.
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