Narcotics once served a purpose a long time ago but that ended around the time when the corrupt JCPD detectives were framing people. You saw recently how they took a few liberties with their overtime. It's reasonable to believe that the years in between those 2 events had a few illegalities along the way too. There's still some good work being done but it's despite how LMPD is organized and led, not because of it. The only cases needing to be centralized are task force cases. Those detectives don't