When We the People are finally fed up with violent criminals preying on the innocent and step in to stop the carnage, the problem will go away. That is what Hartford, Connecticut officials are learning the hard way as concerned and armed citizens are fighting back against lawlessness.

Residents of the troubled North End neighborhood have emphatically had enough of cowering in fear. Through the valiant efforts of founder Cornell Lewis, the “Self-Defense Brigade” is pushing back against the criminal element through armed volunteer patrols.

There are also dozens of drones in place and roughly 75 home surveillance cameras monitoring the comings and goings on the streets.

Lewis told Fox News that he is getting strong pushback from city leaders for organizing this group of some 40 volunteers. Those in power are “either unwilling or unable, incapable of doing it, and people are paying their tax dollars, and they’re not really getting any kind of service. So we want the people to understand, number one, self-defense is not a dirty word.”

Those in power include Mayor Arunan Arulampalam (D). He issued a statement to Fox News declaring that “our community has seen so much pain and trauma, and what we need is for those to love this city to do the hard work of healing the pain, not walk around our streets with guns trying to take the law into their own hands.”

Arulampalam cannot or will not acknowledge that for the pain he referenced to be healed, its cause must first be eliminated.

One of Lewis’ volunteers, Marcus Long, explained that the Self-Defense Brigade does much more than walk the streets with firearms.

“It is important to come out here because we believe that we have to keep the community safe, keep the community clean. And we’re doing this by being out here for a few hours, clean up the community, pick up the trash.” 

The push for armed civilian patrols picked up steam in February with a double homicide on Garden Street. 

Open carry is illegal in Connecticut, but Lewis explained that his group exercises concealed carry, and all are licensed.

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