Is that right?
Then let the leaders study history.
If they can't lead appropriately, then the masses will take over.
If government won't protect me on the streets, I have no option but to protect myself.
If the problem is within my own community, a community consensus might promote a vigilante presence to safeguard me and mine.
Now that's a reasonable course of action, given the propensity for violent takeover by a bunch of inbred sky fairy followers with a death wish is concerned.