Following the release of the video showing the beating of Tyre Nichols by five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, conversations around police accountability have picked up again nationwide.

For Leia Pitcher, the current interim auditor for the Eugene Police Department, the video was hard to watch.

"It was a horrible video to watch. The whole incident was handled, obviously, awfully, and as someone who has been in this line of work for as long as I've been, over a decade, it's demoralizing and really, really tough," Pitcher said.

Pitcher, along with Eugene's Civilian Review Board, review all complaints involving the Eugene Police Department.

"We have a pretty unprecedented level of access for a civilian oversight agency into police bodycam footage, dispatch records, [and] radio traffic," Pitcher says. "We can ask for, and we receive, all the information that we need to look at those uses of force to see if they were within policy or not."

Pitcher and the Civilian Review Board don't have disciplinary power, per city code, but do release annual reports detailing each complaint.