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LA has 16,000 trash calls. Is yours one of them?

Okay, so check it—

### Your street needs cleaning and City Hall knows it

Oye, so you know how sometimes you call 311 for something, right? Like, you got a couch somebody dumped on your street, or there's graffiti on the wall near your bus stop? Well, the latest data from the city's 311 service requests is literally screaming about it. Top of the list, by a long shot, is "Item Pickups" with almost 8,900 requests. And right behind that? "Illegal Dumping Item Pickup" with over 7,100 calls. No mames, that’s almost 16,000 calls just for people wanting stuff cleaned up off their streets!

Here’s the breakdown:

* **Item Pickups:** 8,893 requests

* **Illegal Dumping:** 7,128 requests

* **Graffiti Removal:** 3,220 requests (plus another 2,749 for the same thing, so almost 6,000 total)

It’s like, we're calling and calling, and the city is literally swimming in these requests. It makes you wonder how fast they're actually getting to all of them, ya sabes? Like, are they picking up that old mattress on your block on day one, or is it still there a week later? Keep an eye out for how fast your local sanitation crew is moving. That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110.

Marisol Vega-Cisneros, MiTL Sports Desk

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