Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton talks about his hopes for policing reform - "The Takeout"

Even as congressional negotiations continue on police reform legislation, former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says policing in America is "in a good place at this time, despite all the controversy, because [police] are in the spotlight."

"As the government gets ready to spend trillions of dollars on a multitude of issues, let's hope they put some of that money into the reforms that are going to get policing farther down the path of reform," Bratton told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett on this week's episode of "The Takeout" podcast. Bratton has decades of experience, having served as Boston police commissioner and Los Angeles Police Department chief in addition to two terms as New York City police commissioner. As for the kind of reform that he'd like to see in legislation, Bratton said transparency on the part of police departments would be a key element, as well as better training. But he also said that no legislation would be a cure-all: "We never reach a final destination in policing," Bratton told Garrett. "We never reach it in medicine. We never reach the science as the world is always changing around us... the twenty-first century changed the previous two hundred years of police reform and totally expanded all the issues that cops now have to deal with."