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A month after Walter Wallace Jr. was killed by police in front of his home, the Philadelphia Police Department quietly rolled out a new script for 911 calls.

It starts with a question phone workers at the police dispatch center are supposed to ask every time they answer a call:

Are you or the person you are calling about experiencing problems with mental health, substance use or suffer from any developmental disabilities? …