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Unlike in the private sector where profit is a shared goal (especially if profits are distributed among employees), officers who work the streets and supervisors who manage the street cops do not necessarily have the same goals or priorities.⁸ Police officers are most interested in completing their work with minimal interference. Their alliances and loyalties are most often to fellow officers. Managers, however, are most interested in achieving results that are in line with agency objectives. Police officers seek to maximize their autonomy; managers seek to limit that autonomy. Street cops are concerned with doing the work; management cops are concerned with how this work is represented. While there is sometimes conflict between street cops and management cops,⁹ there is also mutual dependence.¹⁰ Street officers can make work difficult for their supervisors and vice versa. For example, managers may be able to control promotions and shift assignments or other work rewards or sanctions. On the other hand, if dissatisfied with management decisions, workers can engage in work stoppages or speed-ups. Although such tactics are seldom used by officers, it illustrates the power that they can have over managers.