at a time when we've heard about nothing but strained police relations with the community an event today to highlight young leaders and their bond with officers cbs 58's jocelyn pruner joins us live in the newsroom with that story jocelyn michelle it stands for students talking it over with police or the stop program in milwaukee and since the program started in 2010 close to 1700 students have graduated it was a party atmosphere inside the panther arena oh i really didn't like them but these students mean serious business you never really got a good perception of police no matter what part of the city you're from that view did a 180 because of the stop program i love them they're cool you get to see a whole another side of them like human too so you can't just be quick to point the finger all the time officer moody officer taylor 11th grader emani ortiz was recognized for her leadership in the stock program one thousand dollars and an ipad the program is really inspiring it helps young leaders be recognized milwaukee police officers go into 74 schools and meet with teens i was like kind of nervous to you know to go into the program because i was kind of afraid of the police because of the things that have been going on but i learned it's a lot of actually good police officers out there it builds better relationships between officers and students we have a subset of young people that engage in criminal activity just as we have a subset of adults that do but the overwhelming majority of our young folks are triumphing over adversity and are going to go on to lead productive lives and we're glad to be a part of their development it changes perception one teen at a time definitely changing this young lady's image of the men and women in uniform tuition is coming college is coming so got to be prepared for that imani plans to study criminal psychology and by the way this program has won national awards and according to the department to stop program will expand to the racine school district live in the newsroom jocelyn pruna cbs 58 news very good jocelyn thank you well the booming commercial stretch