Austin Amigos en Azul hosts annual shop with a cop event

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It's a decades-long tradition around the holidays, pair police officers with students in need and let them shop for holiday gifts together.The program creates a safe environment for kids to socialize with officers and create positive relationships.Saturday, members of Amigos en Azul, or Friends in Blue, hosted their annual shop with a cop event in Austin. Roughly 150 kids from several Central Texas elementary schools got $150 to spend while hanging out with Austin police of