The cops would have insisted scheduling in-person interview

This is a highly entertaining movie and one of my favorites. But even in its glory, there some fantasy that should be ruined because it could happen to you, in real life.

The police / law enforcement would have insisted scheduling in-person interview. In the movie, the cops telephone the narrator at home, Jack answers, and the cops just blows right into the question and answer about THE APARTMENT CATASTROPHICALLY BLOWING UP. This is a major, major deal, so there's no way a cop would just do it like that. The police would require the person to go into the police station to ascertain identity, i.e. drivers license, then a few (e.g. more than one) cop would interview, whether one at a time or together, the person brought-in to interview. Even in 1999, before America's love affair of terrorist attacks got hardcore, cops would still have require in-person.

They're called fingers, and yet they don't fing. - Franklin, The Critic