A woman can wear a burka or she can walk the streets stark naked (or anything in between). It doesn't matter! Her safety cannot be guaranteed in either case. What can be guaranteed is that if and when she is harmed, some people will make public their opinion about how what she was wearing contributed to the crime.

"Asking victims to change their behaviour means offenders won't need to change theirs, wrong approach to preventing crime."

All German Muslims would have probably suffered from an inflamed climate if the Cologne assassin had been an Islamist.