Each public servant position is laid out by the State of Wisconsin in legislation.  No method for delivering public services involves committing crimes, being unethical or straying from position protocols.  Other people’s Constitutional and legal rights cannot be violated, nor ethical protections.  That raises the question, why do some servants stray from assigned protocols, perhaps refuse to perform position obligations, refuse to comply with superior’s commands, even challenge people’s rights or commit crimes?

Considering the consequences of being held accountable for personal actions is a baseline motivator for the public to abide by the law.  If a member of government does not sense the likelihood of being held accountable for misactions they can make a choice.  They can ask themselves, ‘Will I remain within bounds of the law, ethics and boundaries of this position?’  Public servants violate standards knowingly or unknowingly.  Servant violations make evidence for correction, punishment or dismissal conducted by the public or government itself.

Service position boundaries and powers are written regularly in Federal and State of Wisconsin law and that all members of local, State and Federal government can be monitored and managed by external forces.  The citizens of the USA.  The electorate.  The public.  Abraham Lincoln remarked, “Of the people, by the people, for the people” to illuminate the system’s source of power and the people responsible for designing the U.S. government.  

Within Constitutions, State legislation, Federal codes, ethics and case law, numerous written descriptions are present of citizens holding capacities to elect representatives, challenge any member of government for failures, recall elections for replacement, have employed staff trained or replaced through higher authorities, and many other means that manage local and higher bodies of government.

The system is designed so an official holds a position temporarily and can be replaced.  That fluidity makes opportunity to replace harmful contributors with patriots that uphold public services as written. 

It goes both ways.  Public servants and the public hold power over the other depending on the circumstance.  In totality, the people have protected themselves by designing government to ensure freedom to live their lives free of unnecessary government interference.  U.S. residents are protected from government overreach.

The truth is, if you want the government to function as State authorities explain it should, then do something to cause that to take place.  All adults, even minors can have a social influence on members of the local government.  Connect with them, talk with them, let them know what you want them to accomplish.  If you encounter a servant that fails to deliver what the State told them to perform, inform them to correct themselves according to their provided protocols.  If they do not, hold them accountable as the State explains.  Replace them in an election.  Can also give notice to superiors that a hired person should be corrected or replaced with a more capable employee.

Regardless of a city or village’s size, if the locals show knowledge of how to manage their own government, its members will sense being watched by people that can hold them accountable for misaction.  The awareness of being held accountable for failures is a universal motivator for getting others to perform roles described by superior authorities.