Your 311 calls are literally swamping City Hall, fam
Okay so check it— everybody's always complaining about how slow the city is, right? But like, no mames, have you seen how many 311 calls they're getting? According to the latest data, your neighbors — all of us, really — are calling in for *item pickups* almost 10,000 times. That's 9,660 requests for just regular item pickups, and then another 7,863 for *illegal dumping*. That's a lot of mattresses and old couches, ya sabes?
### What's Keeping City Workers Busy
It's literally a mountain of trash, and our city workers are out there trying to clear it. Think about it: that’s almost 18,000 calls just for stuff lying around. And then on top of that, graffiti removal is another huge one, like over 7,500 requests. It really shows you what people are dealing with every day, from the Valley to South LA.
* **Item Pickups:** 9,660 requests * **Illegal Dumping:** 7,863 requests * **Graffiti Removal:** 7,533 requests (combined) * **Homeless Encampment:** 1,715 requests
And it's not even counting the 1,715 calls about homeless encampments, which is a whole other level of heartbreaking. City Hall is literally drowning in these service calls. It really makes you wonder if they have the resources to keep up with all of it. We gotta keep an eye on how these numbers affect next year's budget talks, because clearly, the demand is there.
That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110.
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