Your city hall is really getting into the jawn game
Listen, Philly, I'm not even gonna hold you. We talk a lot about what City Hall ain't doing, or what they messing up, or how they gotta get it together. But sometimes, sometimes, you just gotta look at the numbers and wonder, 'what in the wooder ice is going on here?'
### What's Up With All These "Miscellaneous" Requests?
So I'm checking out the 311 service request data, right? And listen, normally you see potholes, sanitation, all that. But the number one jawn on the list? "Miscellaneous." And not just like, one "miscellaneous" here and there. It's the top seven spots, all "miscellaneous" with question marks next to them.
* Miscellaneous: ? requests
* Miscellaneous: ? requests
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* Miscellaneous: ? requests
I'm not even gonna hold you, my first thought was, did someone in City Hall just hit the "jawn" button repeatedly? Or are we really out here requesting that many random jawns that don't fit into any category? We need to figure out what these "miscellaneous" requests actually are, because if we don't know what the people are asking for, how can we fix it, or nah?
This ain't just some funny jawn, though. If a huge chunk of our 311 calls are just lumped into "miscellaneous," it means we ain't tracking real problems. Are these requests about illegal dumping on 52nd Street that isn't coded right? Is it about some weird building jawn near the Italian Market? We need to know what kind of "miscellaneous" wooder our people are wading through.
That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here.
Keisha Robinson-Moyer (@kee_westphilly)
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