Okay so check it— your phone has been ringing off the hook at City Hall, literally. Like, the 311 service requests for item pickups and illegal dumping? *No mames*, those are through the roof.

**Your City Hall Is Swamped With Trash**

For real, the latest data shows almost 10,000 requests for just "Item Pickups" and then another nearly 8,000 for "Illegal Dumping Item Pickup." That’s almost 18,000 calls to get stuff off our streets, fam. Think about it: that’s more than five times the number of graffiti removal requests and almost ten times the calls about homeless encampments. It’s like, people are tired of seeing mattresses and old furniture just chilling on their blocks, ya sabes? And it ain't just the Westside calling, this is all over.

What does it mean? It means our neighborhoods are drowning in junk, and residents are doing their part to report it. Now it's up to the city to, like, actually *pick it up*. We gotta see if they can keep up with this demand.

That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110.

— @mari_v_eastside

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