A Letter From A Cop's Daughter:

My dad, and thus my entire family, has bled blue for my entire life. I grew up with the title of 'a cop's daughter,' and I wore it proud. Nothing has changed. I am proud to say that my 48-year-old father has been a full-time police officer (and firefighter) for 25 years, as well as an esteemed lawyer representing a number of individuals in various areas -- including officers involved in shootings. My dad is the most outstanding man I have ever met in my entire life. I have never known someone so selfless and professional, especially in his area of work.

The way the world works right now, if one who supports the violent side of this Black Lives Matter movement saw my dad's job titles, he would immedeatly be coined the 'enemy.'

My father serves his community with everything he has. The fact that a few officers who had a lapse in judgment at the hand of terror are being attacked because of their human mistakes is absolutely insane. Officers are no less human than anyone else. When an African American individual shoots and kills a white man/woman, black individuals are not all viewed as malicious killers. Why is it OK to do that to the men and women who save our lives every day?

Giving my dad's credentials, he is extremely knowledgable in the area of the use of deadly weapons, and spends a lot of his time traveling around and giving classes to officers and criminal justice professionals on the proper ways to use deadly force, and the consequences of not doing so. He represents officers and police stations accused of using wrongful force, is an advocate for law enforcement everywhere, and has been through more than anyone ever should be -- and for that, you guessed it: I am proud.

My father actively tries to diminish the possibility of police brutality, yet still has a target on his back solely because of his job title.

I will not let hate groups tell me that my father is not a worthy human. I will not let the malicious killing of police officers around America make me scared to recognize how amazing my father is. I will not let my world crumble at the hands of those who are too ignorant to realize that he is on their side -- he cares for their well being, and if they called him tomorrow while in danger, he would save them; because that is what he swore to do.

Being the daughter of a police officer in 2016 does not automatically make me against the Black Lives Matter movement, for I believe that the lives of African American individuals most certaintly matter. All life is precious and should not be taken. What I am against, and what I will not stand for, is the unjust and malicious killing of law enforcement officials solely because a few officers...a few human beings...made a mistake during a time of fear and distress, quickly trying to remember their months of training while taking into account their own safety and the lives of their children and families they left behind at home. The world is dehumanizing these officers in more than one way. I see humans everywhere but absolutely no humanity.

In a speech addressing "The Danger of the Black Lives Matter Movement," Heather Mac Donald reveals some groundbreaking facts:

40 percent of all cop killers have been black over the last decade. And a larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths are a result of police killings than black homicide deaths—but don’t expect to hear that from the media or from the political enablers of the Black Lives Matter movement. Twelve percent of all white and Hispanic homicide victims are killed by police officers, compared to 4 percent of all black homicide victims. If we’re going to have a “Lives Matter” anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named “White and Hispanic Lives Matter.”

Standard anti-cop ideology, whether emanating from the ACLU or the academy, holds that law enforcement actions are racist if they don’t mirror population data. New York City illustrates why that expectation is so misguided. Blacks make up 23 percent of New York City’s population, but they commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime, according to victims and witnesses. Add Hispanic shootings and you account for 98 percent of all illegal gunfire in the city. Whites are 33 percent of the city’s population, but they commit fewer than two percent of all shootings, 4 percent of all robberies, and five percent of all violent crime. These disparities mean that virtually every time the police in New York are called out on a gun run—meaning that someone has just been shot—they are being summoned to minority neighborhoods looking for minority suspects.

Officers hope against hope that they will receive descriptions of white shooting suspects, but it almost never happens. This incidence of crime means that innocent black men have a much higher chance than innocent white men of being stopped by the police because they match the description of a suspect. This is not something the police choose. It is a reality forced on them by the facts of crime.

This is not to say that only black men and women commit crimes; but, in areas where they are the majority of the population, of course they are going to be the majority of the ones running into police.

This is not a race issue -- this is a human issue. We need to look at the facts and recognize what pain we are putting our government, police officers, and human race through.

So, to the daughters like me who have way too much on their mind during this time, I'm praying for you; please give your mom or dad a hug for me and behalf of the millions of Americans who stand by them. May God be with them and keep them safe.