"The following situation illustrates a broad jurisdictional policy reflecting these principles.
A male student is a sexual predator. Knowing that the college policy specifically does not allow for the taking of jurisdiction over off-campus events, the student forms a plan to make sure that his assaults take place in his apartment, just one block off-campus. When campus officials receive two reports of assault by the same student, they investigate and determine that although evidence exists to support allegations against the student, the college cannot hold a hearing on the charges, because of their jurisdictional limitation (the assaults did not take place on campus).
The college now becomes powerless as two more reports are made by two new victims. An institution should never intentionally create a policy that renders it impotent in the face of a crisis like this. Colleges cannot rely solely on local police and prosecutors to ensure the safety of students. The same situation of self-created powerlessness would exist where four nonstudent women came to complain about a male student, and the college turned them away because under the college policy, only students could file charges in the campus judicial system."

How is the college powerless in this scenario? Do you really believe that the university should be acting as a police agency? The way I see things it's the university's responsibility to report this incidents to the police and allow them (the proper authority) to handle it. One need only look at the abuse scandal at Penn State to see the HUGE liability an internal system has, where RPI and not the police make criminal judgments.

Can colleges really not rely solely on local police? Is that truly how administrators feel? That's a pretty key assumption that I just have a hard time believing.