Second Year

‘So You Want To Be A Cop’ Is Now In It’s Second Year

KONO’s unique public service program ‘So You Want To Be A Cop’ heard every Sunday at 9 PM, is now in it’s second year. It features ‘on the spot’ recordings of various police activities, and provides the listener with a ringside seat at murders, gambling raids, stabbings, fights, arguments and all the other varied types of disorders for which the San Antonio Policeman may be called.

Although only 30 minutes in duration, the program requires many, many hours of highly specialized labor and the use of much special equipment. Each Saturday night KONO’s specially equipped mobile recording car takes to the streets, and patrols as long as 8 to 10 hours in order to cover the events that go into the program.

Then comes the long and arduous task of editing the resulting tapes for the removal of extraneous materials, such as profanity. Sometimes several hours may elapse between the beginning of an episode, and the time it finally gets ‘wound up’ by the police, and the separate recordings must be pieced together in their proper order to give the continuity needed for full understanding of the case.

George Ing, Chief Engineer of KONO, handles this editing job, which consumes from 6 to 8 hours alone. Ing is not allowed to accompany the recording crew, and the recording personnel are not permitted to discuss the material they have gathered until Ing has completed his job.

Many citizens have written and called both the station and the police department to express their amazement at the multitudinous and varied demands made for police service and to express their admiration of police patience often exhibited by the minions of the law.

November 1949

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