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Your neighbors made 8,558 trash requests. What's the city doing?

Oye, your neighbors really want the city to pick up trash

Okay so check it—you know how everyone's always complaining about stuff not getting picked up, right? Like, you see those mattresses just chilling on the curb in Silver Lake, or like, old couches near the 101? Well, the latest 311 data is literally screaming about it.

Here’s the deal:

* "Item Pickups" and "Illegal Dumping Item Pickup" requests are at the top, like, way up there. We're talking 8,558 requests for general item pickups and another 6,978 for illegal dumping. That’s a *lot* of stuff people want gone.

* "Information-Only" is also high, probably people just trying to figure out how to even *get* a couch picked up, ya sabes?

* Graffiti removal is still up there too, with 2,830 requests.

* Homeless encampment calls came in at 1,645.

It just shows you what folks are really dealing with out here. It's not the fancy new luxury condos, it’s the everyday stuff, like literal trash on the street. This isn't some Westside problem, fam; it's happening all over. You gotta wonder if the city's got enough crews to even keep up with all this, or if we're just gonna keep seeing more of that junk pile up.

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

Marisol Vega-Cisneros (@mari_v_eastside)

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