A Bronx business is trying to hit the reset button on police-community relations—by using video games. NY1's Erin Clarke filed this report.

Ask young people what they think of police and you'll often hear answers like this:

"They just boss people around and that they just put people in jail because they want to," says Jayden Felix, 

"They were always serious," says Adrian Vidals, 13.

Saturday those opinions changed for some in Hunts Point. The tech services company StartUp Box SouthBronx hosted an Xbox Call of Duty Competition.

Officers from the 41st precinct played the popular video game with members of the community.

"They do seem like regular people outside of the uniform," says Albert Rivera.

"They seem pretty cool. They play video games, like that's pretty much what I do, so basically they're like us," says Jacob Felix, 16.

That was the goal.

During a time when relationships between police and some communities have been strained following the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri, organizers of this event wanted to show that cops and the people they police DO have things in common.

"I like Call of Duty. I like—soccer is my favorite game. Baseball, Tomb Raider. I'm a gamer. I love games," says Officer Stephanie Sepeda.

"This is a great opportunity for people alike and gamers alike to see that even the people who you have been taught to fear, sometimes based on the current climate, are gamers just like you and enjoy the same things you do as well," says Chief Technology Officer Lancelot Chase of StartUp Box.

Before the coopetition, StartUp Box SouthBronx took a survey among police officers and the community and both overwhelmingly chose Call of Duty. 

So things can get pretty heated when people start playing video games, but event organizers say they weren't worried about that at all. In fact, they hope for that.

"I want people to get angry. I want people to enjoy themselves, because when you love something, you want to win badly in it. And when you want to win badly in it, you get mad when you're losing. That's the natural progression of things," Chase says.

From the look of things, teams on both sides were going hard for the top spot. The winning team walked away with $300—$100 for each player.