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District Judge Robert Blackburn considered how to sentence him for his recent parole violation. Blackburn placed Smith on days of electronic monitoring for the violations instead of sending him back to prison. In , Smith was a year-old in northeast Denver, drawn to a new gang that he felt could protect him at a time when he lost his dad.

Now two years removed from prison, working at a Five Points cafe and raising a 6-year-old daughter with his wife, Smith has a Montbello home that has no furniture in the living room and a simple square table in the kitchen. The memo was written after a police car cruising in the block of St. Paul Street had been hit with two bullets as it passed a crowd of black teens. Many were enrolled at Manual and East high schools. Their ages ranged from 13 to The list included one woman.

Three were Latino, and 66 were black. The neat, typed columns of names included descriptions of tattoos and weapons and listed home addresses. The weapons included guns, pipes, chains and knives.

In a couple of cases, they included rocks thrown at police cars. As police officers developed the list, the violence in northeast Denver escalated. Six days after the memo was issued, two young adults were shot to death.

Phillip Jefferson, the leader of the Rolling 30s, was arrested. Less than three weeks after the memo, the annual Juneteenth festival in Five Points erupted with rock-throwing, shootings and assaults.

Denver police Officer Timothy Pulford was shot twice in the arm while perched on a rooftop. One teen on the list was charged with the shooting. Another was partially paralyzed that same weekend, shot by rival gang members. Summits were organized, truces promised. And names and pictures were gathered by police.

The Rolling 30s Crips emerged in the mids as the first of the violent Los Angeles-style gangs to expand into Denver. Its leaders were Michael Asberry, a northeast Denver teen, and Jefferson and Albert Jones, two Los Angeles transplants moved to Denver by their mothers to escape the gang lifestyle. Police were determined to break it up.

But what the gang members recall as heavy-handed tactics ultimately backfired. Gary Armstrong recalled police driving by and asking him and his friends to show them their gang signs.

When they posed, the officers took their pictures, Armstrong said. Smith said sometimes officers had them take off their shirts to see the tattoos covering their bodies. Ari Zavaras was Denver police chief right after the gangs emerged and head of the state Department of Corrections when members started going to prison. We were relatively successful in letting the community know what we were doing and why we were doing it.

By the late s, gang members from the list were going to prison. Dan McClintock. George McCloud. Jelani McCoy. Antonio McDyess. Patrick McFarland. JaVale McGee.

Bill McGill. George McGinnis. Jeff McInnis. Billy McKinney. Jordan McRae. Darnell Mee. Ron Mercer. Loren Meyer. Andre Miller. Mike Miller. Quincy Miller. Terry Mills. Paul Millsap. Steve Mix. Andre Moore. Richard Moore. Monte Morris. John Morrison. Timofey Mozgov. Emmanuel Mudiay. Eric Murdock. Jamal Murray. Tracy Murray. Willie Murrell. Dikembe Mutombo. Calvin Natt. Craig Neal. Jameer Nelson. Johnny Newman. Carl Nicks. Zeke Nnaji. Johnny O'Bryant. Jawann Oldham.

Doug Overton. Robert Pack. Kostas Papanikolaou. Charles Parks. Ruben Patterson. Wesley Person. Johan Petro. Walter Piatkowski. Ricky Pierce. Mason Plumlee. Gary Plummer. Mark Pope. Michael Porter. James Posey. Jim Price. Mark Randall. Anthony Randolph.

Blair Rasmussen. James Ray. Eldridge Recasner. Isaiah Rider. Austin Rivers. Anthony Roberts. Marv Roberts. Nate Robinson. Dave Robisch. John Roche. Rodney Rogers. Roy Rogers. Willie Rogers. Jalen Rose. Bryon Russell. Cheikh Samb. JaKarr Sampson. Jamal Sampson. Kenny Satterfield. Danny Schayes. Steve Scheffler. Charlie Scott. Shawnelle Scott. Donald Sidle. Paul Silas.

Grant Simmons. Ralph Simpson. Reggie Slater. Al Smith. Charles Smith. Joe Smith. Kenny Smith. Otis Smith. Robert Smith. Elmore Spencer. Bryant Stith. Jarnell Stokes. Julyan Stone. Mark Strickland. Levern Tart. Brian Taylor. Fatty Taylor. Johnny Taylor. Claude Terry. Floyd Theard. Isaiah Thomas. Willis Thomas. Brooks Thompson.

David Thompson. LaSalle Thompson. Axel Toupane. Monte Towe. John Trapp. Jeff Trepagnier. Nikoloz Tskitishvili.

Elston Turner. Ronnie Valentine. Jan van Breda Kolff. Nick Van Exel. Jarred Vanderbilt. Kiki Vandeweghe. Bob Verga. Jay Vincent. Noah Vonleh. Von Wafer. Darrell Walker. Dwight Waller. Ben Warley. Donald Washington. Eric Washington. Earl Watson. Marvin Webster. Sonny Weems.

Thomas Welsh. Robert Werdann. Tyson Wheeler. Rodney White. Willie White. Chris Whitney. Greg Whittington. Ken Wilburn. Bob Wilkerson. Mike Wilks. Aaron Williams. Chuck Williams. Eric Williams. Monty Williams.