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🏛 EXCLUSIVE: CITY HALL DATA — Only on The Desk

LA asked for 9,773 trash pickups. What's going on?

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Your trash pickup requests are literally through the roof

Okay so check it— your City Hall data for the week is out, and no mames, the biggest thing jumping out is what y'all are asking the city to pick up. Like, seriously.

Here's the lowdown:

* **Item Pickups:** Almost 10,000 requests, 9,773 to be exact.

* **Illegal Dumping:** Not far behind, with 7,610 requests just for illegal dumping. That’s people just leaving stuff out on the street, ya sabes?

* **Graffiti:** Still a problem, with 2,726 requests for removal.

This is all from the latest 311 service request data. It's wild because it just shows you what's on people's minds, like what they see every day when they leave their house. It makes you wonder why there's so much junk on the streets in the first place, and what the city's plan is to actually *prevent* it, not just pick it up after the fact.

Watch out for how the city addresses this surge in cleanup requests, especially with budget season coming up. They gotta do more than just react. That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110.

Marisol Vega-Cisneros, MiTL Sports Desk

Seriously, you gotta hear what my Tía thinks about this — we talk about it every morning. Check us out at mornings.live.

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