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Community-based crisis hotlines may better serve marginalized people, activists say, by guaranteeing peer support and zero interaction with police.

Community-based crisis hotlines may better serve marginalized people, activists say, by guaranteeing peer support and zero interaction with police.

Community-based crisis hotlines may better serve marginalized people, activists say, by guaranteeing peer support and zero interaction with police.

Community-based crisis hotlines may better serve marginalized people, activists say, by guaranteeing peer support and zero interaction with police.

Community-based crisis hotlines may better serve marginalized people, activists say, by guaranteeing peer support and zero interaction with police.

Community-based crisis hotlines may better serve marginalized people, activists say, by guaranteeing peer support and zero interaction with police.

Community-based crisis hotlines may better serve marginalized people, activists say, by guaranteeing peer support and zero interaction with police.

Community-based crisis hotlines may better serve marginalized people, activists say, by guaranteeing peer support and zero interaction with police.

Can the 988 suicide/crisis hotline lead to Pittsburgh Police's involvement? Pittsburgh City Paper's fact-checking pigeon is on the case.

PITTSBURGH -- The new national mental health crisis phone line, 988, was launched on Saturday, but many fear states and their lifeline call centers may be understaffed and unready to absorb the influx of new callers.