It is worse than just getting out of their seat really. Even if they regularly formed mobs of protesters and weren't ignored or took harsh measures to force the issues quickly they would still come back. Even going to the extreme of killing everyone who fits the label wouldn't fix it long term as someone else looking for easy money would try to fill the niche whenever their personal courage outweighed the ambient terror.

The only way to fix the issue long term is to replace them and fill the niche better than they can. Needless to say doing so personally risks becoming as bad as those they set out to replace and creating an automated AI official/manager/business entity capable of doing their job better than them and getting it accepted in the face of centuries of stories warning of it being a bad idea before it even existed are very tall orders. It isn't like they are telephone switchboard operators who can be replaced by an impartial dialing mechanism by a disgruntled funeral home owner.