Hundreds of law enforcement officers from 23 different agencies — coming as far south as Salinas and north to Los Altos — descended on a Target store in San Jose on Wednesday, armed with big smiles and goodwill to join nearly 200 elementary school students on a holiday shopping spree.

This was Shop With a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley’s 18th annual event, which many officers — some wearing Santa hats and reindeer antlers — call their favorite day of the year.

It’s certainly a fun day for the 180 students who participated from Santee, Dahl, Shirakawa and Kennedy schools in San Jose. They earned $300 Target gift cards by taking part in a 10-week reading challenge, with some students making huge leaps in their reading level. The San Jose Police Department nominated an additional 20 stude

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