Yeah, afaik, most Police won't do anything with this. My spouse's id was used to rent an Oakland luxury appartment in 2021, along with opening a credit union account and trying to open an amex. Thankfully amex called to check because there was already an account opened, and we were able to get the credit union account closed before it was usable, but the apartment complex seemed unable to do anything and Oakland PD didn't do anything other than acknowledge the report, they wouldn't return calls from our local PD either. IdentityTheft.gov is also a black hole.
Credit freezes are a joke, because if you have a person's credit report, you have enough information to cancel the freeze, even if you can't temporarily thaw it. Still, maybe it's better than nothing, so might as well. But it's then a pain if you need to interact with the credit system; some of the bureaux have such poor systems that your accounts will regularly not work; anyway, credit issuers don't tend to tell you what bureau they'll pull from until after they pull, so may as well unlock the big 3 before you do anything; and batch all your credit increase requests together.
Credit freezes are a joke, because if you have a person's credit report, you have enough information to cancel the freeze, even if you can't temporarily thaw it. Still, maybe it's better than nothing, so might as well. But it's then a pain if you need to interact with the credit system; some of the bureaux have such poor systems that your accounts will regularly not work; anyway, credit issuers don't tend to tell you what bureau they'll pull from until after they pull, so may as well unlock the big 3 before you do anything; and batch all your credit increase requests together.