I agree.
And the low-level employee who honestly follows the policy, reasonably (key) thinking that someone up the chain calls the police when appropriate, probably has a defense.
It’s not unreasonable for institutions, depending on the nature of the incident, to refer decisions on calling the police to a higher level. But then the police must be called if appropriate or required by law.
And a policy should never be expressed as basically prohibiting a person from taking action, including calling law enforcement, to protect a person from a criminal act or other harm.
It wouldn’t surprise me that big-time college football programs have an explicity or implicit system of trying to “handle” all negative matters internally, even though this could amount to a policy of covering up crime on a systematic basis.
Maybe! for things like embezzlement, but if you see a criminal physical act take place then the first person you notify is the police dispatcher. Why? Handling it via administration leaves that victim and other potential victims open to further attack during the period of admin. decision making; and that assumes an administrator 1) ends up with the proper information via the chain 2) chooses to do anything (i.e. Catholic Church response).
A "university policy" suggestion: Any criminal activity that involves threatened, attempted, or completed physical contact is to be reported immediately to 9-1-1.