Your Street Sweeper Missed Your Stuff Again, Huh?

Okay so check it—your city hall data just dropped, and no mames, it’s literally all about trash. Like, guess what Angelenos are actually calling 311 for? Not fancy development, not even, like, parking tickets. It's literally 'Item Pickups' and 'Illegal Dumping' topping the charts with over 16,000 requests combined. That’s from the latest 311 service request data, fam. Think about that: 8,501 calls for just regular item pickups, and another 7,693 for straight-up illegal dumping. People are calling about old couches, mattresses, whatever, just left on the street.

It means people in Los Angeles are out there trying to keep their neighborhoods clean, right? But the city's gotta catch up. You see it everywhere, like on Whittier Boulevard, especially on the side streets right after the street sweeper goes through and misses everything. And then there are over 2,500 calls for graffiti removal, too. This isn't about, like, new pools getting built in Beverly Hills (though that permit for a pool equipment room did sneak in there, from 2015, no less). This is about the basic stuff.

What does that mean? It means your city council needs to be putting more resources into sanitation. Simple as that. We'll be watching to see if they actually listen to what residents are literally asking for.

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

Mari Vega-Cisneros

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