Atrocities against women and children - Time for Action

Another assault on a mother/sister/daughter, some outrage on MSM, major outrage on social media, police inaction, candlelight march, usual outpouring of grief and then all is forgotten until a new incident crops up. We are seeing this pattern all too often. The gruesome atrocity committed on the young veterinary doctor in Hyderabad is beyond condemnation. Its a pity that the Home Minister blamed the victim for her inability to dial 100, or that the police officer in charge refused to take the complaint citing jurisdiction and outrageous explanations for her disappearance that she might have eloped. The politico bureaucratic apathy is not new. They hate to be caught in the wrong foot. They dislike such incidents to become public because their inefficiency and lack of competency are exposed. Most cases of sexual assault goes unreported. People do not trust the police as in many cases the men in uniform are solidly with the perpetrators. The victims are forced to remain quiet and if they come forward they are probably silenced forever.
So we, as honest citizens, must ask ourselves. Is expressing grief and outrage enough? Is venting our frustration through social media the only way we can spend our energy. If today we had leaders like Swami Vivekananda or Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, what would they have done or said?
Simple, they would have said, ACT!. More you sit quiet and express yourself from the comfort of your drawing room, more you embolden the perpetrators. As a society we have a collective responsibility to act. Why can't we, for instance, join our hands to form a volunteer organization, having chapters in every cities, towns and districts across India that would act on the basis of any alerts from the distressed women and children or somebody acting on their behalf? The local chapter or the group acts swiftly by alerting police and the local people as soon as they get a message - may be a phone call in a helpline maintained for that purpose. Sometimes ago the Government spoke about a Nirbhaya helpline, but nothing materialized. So without relying on the Government and on defunct administration and judiciary, isn't it far better to work together as a society, take swift action by being on the spot on the basis of the alerts by a local team and thus preventing an atrocity and saving a potential victim? Will not a few such cases will work as a greater deterrence because the would be perpetrators will now realize that an organization is actively working to protect people against predators and therefore would be afraid before planning a heinous crime? Only thing that is needed are several people to come together on a common social platform, share their numbers, form a network or a chain of networks across cities and keep each other informed. Also it is needed to grow local connects so that information flows rapidly to this network for timely action. A helpline number would be essential because that's the number people in distress would try to dial quickly, knowing for sure that there will be help, unlike the low level of confidence that they have on 100.
Its time to act, before we sacrifice more of our mothers/sisters/daughters. If we restrict ourselves to drawing room conversations and social media outrages, future generations will have only contempt for us, just as we have contempt for our forefathers who brought ourselves to such a miserable state of affairs in the last 200 years or so.