Cold Case?

The whole premise didn't feel right. The unit is about cold cases. Then why were they acting as if they were the homocide unit? Why were they acting as if they were CSI investigators (and bad ones at that)? Can there really be an evidence chain of command if the investigator is taking the evidence back to her desk and casually just leaving it on her desk? Did budget cuts really hit the department and they have to now cover three departments? And really, if a cop goes down, are there that many people involved as if a nuclear weapon had just taken out half the city? Is a CP necessary? Or a TOC? Seemed like it was added as filler to make everything seem exciting but added nothing to the show becuase not a single one of the other workers contributed positively to the outcome. Mostly they just f'd it up.