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Have Coffee With A Yonkers Cop On Friday

YONKERS, N.Y. -- When is the last time you sat down for coffee or talked to a police officer? Never? City residents can do both Friday at Raceway Diner when the Yonkers Police Department takes part in the second annual Coffee with a Cop day.

Yonkers police officers will be at a local diner for coffee and conversation on Friday.

Yonkers police officers will be at a local diner for coffee and conversation on Friday.

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"It humanizes everybody and lets us sit down and see people as they are," the event's founder, Sgt. Chris Cognac, of the Hawthorne Police Department in Hawthorne, Calif., said in a CNN interview posted on the initiative's Facebook page here.

"There's the hard questions. Sometimes people will come in. They'll have issues," Cognac said in the report.

But it's also a chance for police and citizens to "get to know each other," he said in the CNN interview.

Click here to see a video clip of the interview on CNN.

Members of the Yonkers Police Department got a chance to speak to Cognac over the summer before holding the department's first Coffee with a Cop event, according to police.

Friday's Coffee with a Cop is 9-11 a.m. at the diner, 833 Yonkers Ave., Yonkers.

For more information about the nationwide Coffee with a Cop Day, click here.

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