"Keep the pressure on"; the crowd chanted after the Reverend Al Sharpton announced that the current commissioner of the New York Police Department, Howard Safir would be retiring. The people were crying out in both anger and joy at this meeting on August 7th. "One down, One to go", said one man at the National Action Network meeting at their headquarters on 124th ST. and Madison Ave. During the reign of Safir , vicious sexual abuse cases, shootings of unarmed black men, and a series of attacks on women who cried out to uninterested police officers were at an all time high. Safir was the 39th commissioner of New York City. Some of the most known cases that have existed during Safir's reign are the Abner Louima case, Amadou Diallo, Patrick Dorismond, and the Puerto Rican day parade incident where over 50 women said they were assaulted by a mob of hungry men.

Back at the National Action Network (NAN) headquarters, the main objective on the agenda was to organize the upcoming "Redeem the Dream Rally". Redeem the Dream is the 37th Anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963. This march is the working of Martin Luther King III and Rev Al Sharpton. The march's main objective is to stop racial profiling and police brutality. The organizers are demanding an executive order from the President creating stronger laws and the end of racial profiling in America. "No one has seen abuse like we have seen in this country" said Rev Al Sharpton, referring to African American people. "Howard Safir is a casualty of this movement and Gulianni is next", said Sharpton.

Many people attended the meeting, including Cuthbert Ashby, a 44-year-old social worker from central New Jersey who says, "There are so many different issues to create social change toward racial profiling, police brutality". Ashby noted that the people in New Jersey are more close minded about the march. "People in NJ are more comfortable with racism because they have forgotten how hard it was and still is for blacks in America these days".

Another person who attended the meeting was Ella Harris, a NAN member who works with the Manhattan coordinator for the march. She says the main purpose of the rally is to try to get President Clinton to sign an executive order to take funds from police and organizations who practice racial profiling; "People don't have enough information so they don't wan to get involved in the march because they don't know what it's about". "If this a government of white people, by white people, and for white people, then America can't survive", says Sharpton, "we need to put people in office who can properly represent us".

Renee Dawson, a singer/songwriter from Harlem, observed that, "The word is getting out faster than we can get the buses, it's ok because it's a challenge that we are prepared to take. Dawson, one of the organizers for transportation for the rally stated that, "We have to draw attention to the injustices toward humanity, everyone has been discriminated against at one time or another, people are so hungry for change they will use any way they can to take change".