Public health managers with the state want people to know that a call to 988 will most likely not end with a police officer at your door.
The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday pushed back on what it is calling misinformation about the new mental health helpline. Online posts say calling 988 could send the police to your home, or end with an involuntary hospitalization. DHS’s Caroline Crehan Neumann says 98 percent of 988 calls in Wisconsin don’t involve the police, and those that do are only because someone is in imminent danger.
