No, it's not. Which newspaper or news network would continuously track the physical location of cops - or of anybody for that matter?
Here are three examples involving physical surveillance, mining public data, and using data collected by a third party, respectively.
https://www.fox8live.com/2026/08/07/unchecked-overtime-nopd-...
https://niemanreports.org/mining-the-data/
https://gijn.org/stories/investigations-using-strava-fitness...
I expect a "but this case is different" type reply; it's almost always possible to make an argument like that.
Here are three examples involving physical surveillance, mining public data, and using data collected by a third party, respectively.
https://www.fox8live.com/2026/08/07/unchecked-overtime-nopd-...
https://niemanreports.org/mining-the-data/
https://gijn.org/stories/investigations-using-strava-fitness...
I expect a "but this case is different" type reply; it's almost always possible to make an argument like that.