Originally Posted by sortie

One difference would be that google provides a very accurate location of the
images, including addresses.

And a house is not really a public property.

Hypothetical : I design a wild artistic house and sell pictures of it to make a living but
now google puts it online for everyone to download. I copyrighted my home design so
I actually do have a case(winning it is different, but I have one).

Further, police activity is public activity as all information pertaining to police
involvement is available to the public(freedom of information act).
Any information obtained by the police in the line of duty becomes evidence.
Evidence is owned by "The People" as in "People versus Mr. Crminal".