well as police superintendent gary mccarthy, are facing questions of why it took more than a year for charges to be filed in this case. in just a few minutes, emanuel is expected to announce the creation of a task force on police accountability. joining me now to discuss all of this is cnn national correspondent ryan young. how much do you know, ryan, about this task force and really the scope of what it's going to consider? >> reporter: that's what we're all wondering right now, how far will this task force go? gary mccarthy has said over and over again, he didn't have the power to fire this officer. will this change anything? what will be the steps? people want to hear the benchmarks for this new task force that will be formed. of course, that news conference coming in about an hour from now. we hope to learn some details. there's already two citizen review boards involved in the process when it comes to officers. gary mccarthy said over and over that what he did with this officer is he suspended his police powers and had him on a desk for quite some time.