Security Delay: Some security actions such as changing your Apple ID password also require you to wait an hour and then perform a second Face ID or Touch ID authentication.
Emphasis mine.
It seems like you have a lot of reasonable questions and concerns about the efficacy of this measure, but Apple have done a pretty good job of addressing them and explaining their rationale in the first few paragraphs of the documentation.
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And if it takes more then an hour to get to a computer I can use? What if I’m wait to report it to the police? Seems like it should be a day.
Emphasis mine.
It seems like you have a lot of reasonable questions and concerns about the efficacy of this measure, but Apple have done a pretty good job of addressing them and explaining their rationale in the first few paragraphs of the documentation.