What is Charles Gain?
[[File:Charles Gain SFPD Chief.jpg|200px|right]] '''Charles Gain''' (November 1, 1923 – August 21, 2018) was an American police official. He was born in [[Hanford, California]]. He first was police chief for [[Oakland, California]], then as chief in [[San Francisco]] in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite book|title=San Francisco Police Department|url=https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscopoli0000garv|last=Garvey|first=John|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2004|isbn=9780738528984|location=|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscopoli0000garv/page/100 100]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/24/archives/expolice-chief-speaks-in-pride-of-coast-career-chief-is-replaced.html|title=Ex‐Police Chief Speaks in Pride Of Coast Career|last=Turner|first=Wallace|date=December 24, 1979|work=New York Times|access-date=2018-08-16|language=en}}</ref> In 1975, Gain was appointed to run the [[San Francisco Police Department]] by Mayor [[George Moscone]] and was until 1980.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/chief-search-turns-sfpd-inside/|title=Chief search turns SFPD inside out|work=The San Francisco Examiner|access-date=2018-08-16|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816230558/http://www.sfexaminer.com/chief-search-turns-sfpd-inside/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Gain died from [[respiratory failure]] in San Francisco on August 21, 2018 at the age of 94.<ref>[https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Charles-Gain-controversial-S-F-police-chief-13189450.php Charles Gain, controversial S.F. police chief during turbulent ‘70s, dies]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gain, Charles}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from respiratory failure]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in San Francisco]] [[Category:American police officers]] [[Category:People from San Francisco]] [[Category:People from Oakland, California]] {{US-bio-stub}}