The small cities don't have full service law enforcement agencies. They all rely on LMPD for the things they don't have and don't do. The department, being the real countywide police department, is lucky they even exist to take some of the routine workloads off of the divisions. The main problem is that Metro government likes to blow hundreds of millions of dollars on frivolities and subsidizing private businesses instead of public safety, to include investigations, crime lab work, and CSU. This