How can we change the laws so that customers who assault workers, and the managers who give them free food after a felony assault, are actually punished?

I'm almost at my wit's end with this. Luckily , I work from home these days, but my heart still cares about front line workers. What do we do about these customers assaulting workers/nurses/waiters/ etc? And how do we address the managers that give free food to these felonious assholes? I tried to start a movement to talk about this a decade ago, and my fellow workers had more smoke for me than the men assaulting them. I am not sure how things can change if workers get angry when you suggest punishing people who threaten to rape them, instead of being mad at the lunatic threatening to rape them!