Chicago replacing agency that reviews police misconduct

Emanuel's announcement came a month after a task force recommended the move in a report that said police in the nation's third-largest city have "no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and have alienated blacks and Hispanics for decades by using excessive force and honoring a code of silence.

Emanuel also said he would appoint a public safety inspector general to "audit and monitor policing in Chicago," and a Community Safety Oversight Board to oversee the city's entire "policy accountability system."

Emanuel, a Democrat, announced the creation of his Task Force on Police Accountability when he fired police Superintendent Garry McCarthy in the wake of public protests over the 2014 shooting by a white police officer of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was black.