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Your 311 calls show LA has 16,000 trash problems.

Your 311 calls tell the real story of LA

Okay so check it – you wanna know what's really happening in our city, right? Forget the fancy press releases; just look at what people are calling 311 for. Because literally, that's Angelenos on the ground saying, "Oye, fix this!"

What are we tripping about the most? Trash. Like, seriously. We had *8,783 requests* for regular item pickups and another *7,170* for illegal dumping. That's almost 16,000 calls just about stuff left where it shouldn't be. Then there's graffiti, with over 5,400 calls. No mames, that's a lot of tagging. And, of course, almost 1,740 calls about homeless encampments – that's the one that always hits different, ya sabes?

* **Top 311 Issues This Cycle:**

* Item Pickups: 8,783 requests

* Illegal Dumping: 7,170 requests

* Graffiti Removal: 5,405 requests (total from two categories)

* Homeless Encampments: 1,739 requests

This data from the city's 311 service requests tells us our neighborhoods are dealing with literal mountains of discarded items and a constant battle against blight. It's not just an inconvenience; it's a quality-of-life issue that affects families in places like Boyle Heights and South Central way more than, like, Beverly Hills. It shows where the city's resources *really* need to go, not just where the developers want to build another luxury condo.

What this means is we gotta keep pushing our council members – like Nithya Raman over in District 4, or Kevin de León representing my Eastside fam in District 14 – to dedicate more crews to these basic services. Because clean streets and safe neighborhoods? That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110.

Marisol Vega-Cisneros, MiTL Sports Desk

My homie Keith and the crew are always breaking down what's happening in our city every morning — catch it live at mornings.live.

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