• Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      How did this get so many people agreeing with it? 911 is emergency services, it is not a hotline to the police.

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        7 months ago

        I didn’t know that. Where I live, there are different hotlines for police, firefighters and so on. The US has one emergency hotline for everything?

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          7 months ago

          Sadly yes, fire, medical, or police, all through the same dispatch router.

          There are other hotlines for other services, location of underground utilities as an example, and I believe there’s a suicide prevention hotline now, but it’s new and hasn’t gained public knowledge status yet.