Wittman is the only San Francisco police chief ever fired outright . During the period before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , business interests desired the removal of the Chinese from San Francisco 's Chinatown because the property was valuable as the city was still centered on Portsmouth Square . The plan was to expropriate the land and move the Chinese to Hunters Point . At a rehearing on Wittman 's firing in 1975 , both historian Kevin Starr and city historian Gladys Hansen stated that Wittman was railroaded
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
George Wittman