About This Site

Social Media (New Media) and law enforcement are on a collision course. People are Twittering crimes in progress, Facebook is helping find missing people, people are exposing themselves (some times more than others) on social media sites, which may cause them to become a victim of a crime. Enemies of the state are present in social media and should be considered to be using social media for potential threats against the United States and Western Civilization. Sounds crazy, maybe, but where there are a lot of people there are criminals and there are hundreds of millions of people using social networks, which is evolving into a new media.

Due to basic human nature there are a certain percentage of individuals who will use social media for criminal activities. So how does law enforcement police social media? Social Media Five-O will provide answers to this question and to many other questions pertaining to how law enforcement agencies, government, and businesses can implement social media into their communication platform. Beyond that this is my platform to discuss all things “social media,” “new media,” and “mobile media.” Speaking of mobile media CrazyMikesapps.com is the sister site to Social Media Five-O.

Social Media Five-O was born from CrazyMikesapps.com . CrazyMikesapps.com is an iPhone app review website that focuses on written, video, and podcast iPhone application reviews. This is how I got started in social media and it is my passion. CrazyMikesapps.com is becoming more than just an iPhone app review site, we are starting to produce iPhone apps ourselves. In addition to app production we are also focusing on iPhone app marketing to help developers learn how to brand their apps for sale in the iTunes App Store. But as a retired law enforcement officer I cannot help but to focus on the benefits to law enforcement by being involved in social media/new media.

Who is Michael Vallez?

07/2009 to Present- USIS, Position: Social Media Strategist. USIS is located at 7799 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, Virginia. Duties include, input, design and implementation of social media at USIS an Altegrity company. Social media policy development, social media research/case studies, determination of social media efforts and ROI, internal/external social media tool determination as well as management of all social media outlets.

10/2009 to Present- Social Media Consultant- USA Crusader/Tampa Bay Crusader.

07/2009-Present-Social Media Consultant/Contributor- iPhone Life Magazine.

Founder: 02/2009 to Present CrazyMikesapps.com, an iPhone app review website with a focus on FREE iPhone app reviews, iPhone apps reviews, iPhone video app reviews, iPhone podcast app reviews, iPhone news&rumors and iPhone Tips&Tricks. CrazyMikesapps was established in 02/2009 and the vehicle where I learned the in’s and out’s of social media.

Past: 03/2007 to 07/2009- USIS, Position: Team Leader. Duties included, management of approximately 15 federal contractor, Special Investigators who conducted national security background investigations on various federal contracts. Additional duties included conducting investigations on 4 different federal contracts US OPM, Department of Homeland Security CBP, ICE and others. Training, special projects, and other duties as requested by District Manager or Business Unit Director. Still maintain a top secret security clearance.

07/2002 to 03/2007- USIS, Special Investigator conducting national security clearance background investigations on 4 different federal contracts including US OPM, Department of Homeland Security CBP, ICE and others. Field trainer for new investigators and high producing investigator reaching senior investigator level.

11/1994 to 04/2002- Police Officer City of Tampa, Florida. Duties included, street patrol, undercover investigations, drug operations, auto theft task force, robbery surveillance, traffic homicide investigator. Medically retired 04/2002 due to injury.

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