DC officials promote Chinatown Safety Team to help prevent crime [Video]

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — With her bright red shirt, Demetria Mosley walked by a homeless man sitting on the sidewalk on Tuesday and greeted him. He asked for a cup of coffee.

“I’ll be back,” she told him.

Mosley is a member of the Chinatown Safety Team hired by the DowntownDC Business Improvement District to help promote safety in the Chinatown-Penn Quarter area that has had its challenges with safety and public disturbances.

“I do it for my own benefit. Basically, I love helping people,” Mosley said. “We’re here to disengage, like not try to make it worse, to try to make it better. So try to be more polite to people. Make it a community thing.”

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Funded through a $216,000 grant from the District, Mosley and nine others will be walking through the blocks of the Chinatown area greeting people, doing wellness checks and reporting …