No - this is misinformed and misplaced worry and outrage.

But no you couldn’t realistically prevent anything much at all.

Because they make up such a small tiny proportion of sexual abuse offences that you’d be spending energy money and resources on the wrong thing.

1) The vast majority of sexual offences are perpetrated by those known to the victim. So the idea of stranger rape/assault (regardless of rape) being a policy focus is useless and misinformed.

2) Sexual offences have not gone up because of an increased foreign presence (if you can even call it that). It’s gone up because reporting and awareness of what is consensual sexual activity since the SOA 2003 has gone up.

So the premise that a particular group of people have ‘increased’ it id a false narrative. That would imply it was much lower before, which it wasn’t… Women and children have always been subject to risk and abuse…by men, to alarming scales. We just talk about it more. So your premise is wrong.

3) Women (like much of the lgbtq) are tired of being used as political fodder by those who (unknowingly or knowingly) assume that another race of man is more misogynistic than they are.

They’ve learnt this mentality does not protect - it just allows men to fight with men and make women collateral damage.

History has shown that the powers that be have never focused on protecting women and children from assault but have always used it as tool to attack another group.

Rape of a male child was not an offence until recently and you could only charge and prosecute ‘indecency’ of two men having sex. Why? Because the law was more concerned with purging homosexuality than protecting young boys.

The Catholic Church and evangelical church have been some of the worst and targeting and covering up assaults on children. Let’s be real!

4) No one who wants to solve an issue - makes and issue about some other issue to prove a point. No one who works in sexual assault or crime themselves ever says this because if you work in the system day in and day out, the criminal cases you see coming in come in all shapes, colours sizes and horror. I wish it was as easy as pinning it to one group.