Coming from a PS background, including some LE (admittedly quite a few years ago, LOL), I can see the mentality of wanting to keep people from hearing stuff if it's "too easy." As in, you just install an app on a phone and you are listening in. I personally never cared that people were listening; there are things that shouldn't be put over the air, period. Use the cell, use the MDT if you have one...or going way back, find a pay phone and call Dispatch collect. I've done that many times myself, initiated by them or by me.
Awhile back, a feed from my area came down. The City Attorney was threatening to sue Broadcastify; the provider took it down to avoid a big mess happening. So yes, the police can and sometimes do, at least indirectly, influence feeds getting taken down. It was discussed here, of course.
https://forums.radioreference.com/c...s-cease-desist-terre-haute-city-attorney.html
I didn't have an opinion about it for a long time, but I am coming to agree with those who are against these feeds. Let people do as so many of us did, save up their pennies and dimes and get a real scanner, then invest the time and effort to learn to program and use it. Or do without if they are disinclined to put forth the effort.