Undisciplined Bureaucracy: The Difficulty in Disciplining a Government Worker

Sleeping on duty, threatening co-workers, falsifying documents, rudeness, sexual harassment and poor performance would get you fired from most jobs. But often that’s not the case for a government worker. The Goldwater Institute scoured more than 10,000 pages of documents to expose the shocking difficulty in removing inept workers from taxpayer-funded payrolls in its special investigation “Undisciplined Bureaucracy.”

Goldwater Institute Investigative Reporter Mark Flatten reveals the nightmar...