When Michael and Michelle Prephan first moved to Toledo they say they were close with their neighbors.

"We used to have block parties, and we would have barbeques and all the neighbors would come," said Michael Prephan.

Over the years the longtime Toledoans say things have changed and their tight-knit community went away.

"Sometimes you meet a new neighbor and they'll say something like, 'We don't do the neighbor thing,' and I don't know who came up with the concept, but to us it's kinda' foreign," said Michael Prephan.

Monday the pair turned out to talk neighborhood changes and other concerns with Toledo's police chief. One of the many topics of discussion was the relatively new "Not In My House" initiative.

"It's our goal to find every kind of innovative way, thinking outside the box to get as many guns and drugs off the street as we can," said Toledo Police Chief George Kral.

In May of 2018 TPD rolled out the program that allows people to report illegal guns and drugs without fear of criminal charges.

"They can call us and we'll take it and we'll book it and we'll destroy it no questions asked," said Kral.

Since its inception Chief Kral says officers have taken more than 800 illegal guns off the streets. While the program aims to keep Toledo safe Kral also says it doubles as a way to bring neighbors together.

"It's the hope that it resonates from a couple houses on a street to a couple of blocks in a neighborhood to an entire neighborhood and [that] it just continues to grow," said Kral.

It's a feeling that people like the Prephan's also share as they hope others embrace the program and get closer in the process.

"We want it to expand so that everybody kinda' knows each other and can count on each other," said Michael Prephan.