They created the 9th and disbanded flex to do exactly what anti-merger people said they'd do. Decrease police protection in the old county and send it to the old city. A few flex people were sent to metro so the chief could pretend it was to centralize. It was a shell game. They were just early replacements for people being promoted and retiring out of narcotics. The other spots went to the waste of manpower called community relations. The 9th is not a gang unit and neither is narcotics. LMPD has