The problem with mass resignings is that they still have to live in a lawless city where it is practically illegal to own a firearm.
From ancient times, people saved themselves and their families from certain death by escaping with only the clothes on their backs.
If people value their lives and families more than their jobs and property, they will act to save what they love most. If that love is for their material things, so be it.
Therein lies a problem in this grand old city of fading glory...