Your city has a literally massive trash problem
Okay so check it—your city hall, like, is drowning in trash requests, no mames. We're talking almost *ten thousand* calls just for 'Item Pickups' and another *eight thousand four hundred seventy-eight* for 'Illegal Dumping' last month alone, according to the 311 service request data. That’s literally almost twenty thousand calls for people just trying to get the city to pick up stuff folks shouldn't have dumped in the first place!
### What's Piling Up
It’s not just big stuff either, but that’s the bulk of it. You know, like when someone leaves a whole couch by the bus stop on Cesar Chavez? That kinda thing.
Here's the breakdown, and it's wild:
* Item Pickups: 9,991 requests * Illegal Dumping Item Pickup: 8,478 requests * Graffiti Removal: 3,427 requests and another 2,856 for the same thing – yeah, it's that bad.
That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110. It’s a literal mountain of junk that residents are calling in, and it tells you a lot about what people are seeing on their streets every single day. Meanwhile, city permits show like, kitchen remodels and pool equipment rooms from 2015. Oye, it's like we're fixing up fancy stuff from almost a decade ago while the streets are full of trash *right now*.
We gotta see if City Hall actually steps up their game on keeping our streets clean, or if these numbers are just gonna keep climbing.
Marisol Vega-Cisneros, MiTL Sports Desk, Morning Wire.
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