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Philly's top 8 complaints are all "Miscellaneous." What gives?

Your city is still dealing with a whole lotta miscellaneous.

Alright, listen up, 'cause this ain't no surprise to anyone who actually *lives* here. We got that 311 data comin' through, and I'm not even gonna hold you, the number one, two, three, *four*, five, six, seven, and eight top service requests are all... "Miscellaneous." Yeah, you heard me right. Miscellaneous. That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here.

Now, what does that even mean, youse ask? It means folks are callin' about everything from a busted street light on Ridge Avenue to some fly-dumping mess behind a jawn in South Philly, and it's all gettin' lumped into one big category. It tells you that the people of Philadelphia are seein' things that need fixin' all over the place, but maybe the system ain't exactly built to categorize every single thing. It's a whole lot of "I got a problem, who do I call?" energy, or nah?

This "miscellaneous" jawn is proof we got a lot of small, everyday issues that add up. What we gotta watch for is if the city can start drillin' down on what those miscellaneous calls actually *are*. We need some real wooder on what's goin' on out here.

That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here.

Kee Robinson-Moyer, MiTL Sports Desk, West Philly.

Yo, me and the fellas are talkin' about this on the Morning Wire, you gotta tune in at mornings.live.

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