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Former Lawman

@formerlawman

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20,352subscribers

-1,311 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001314534499
TypeChannel
Username@formerlawman
DescriptionBodycam, police shootings, pursuits and law enforcement news. Merch: formerlawman.com Watch: rumble.com/c/FormerLawman Read: formerlawman.substack.com
Created20 January 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live8 November 2026
Measurements held62
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 8 November 2026
On Telegramt.me/formerlawman

Topic

Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 48% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.

Growth

20,35221,66321,007.56 August 20268 November 2026
62 measurements spanning 94 days, net -1,311. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 20,155–21,860 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 62
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
8 Nov 2026, 05:5920,352-21
6 Nov 2026, 22:1620,373-21
5 Nov 2026, 21:2420,394-18
4 Nov 2026, 22:3920,412-7
3 Nov 2026, 23:0820,419-15
2 Nov 2026, 23:2020,434-7
1 Nov 2026, 21:5620,441-11
31 Oct 2026, 20:5520,452-9
30 Oct 2026, 18:3020,461-15
29 Oct 2026, 21:0620,476-30
28 Oct 2026, 17:3820,506-15
27 Oct 2026, 14:1920,521-10
26 Oct 2026, 13:1620,531-9
25 Oct 2026, 09:5420,540-12
24 Oct 2026, 12:4520,552-12
23 Oct 2026, 13:0620,564-16
22 Oct 2026, 11:1720,580-22
21 Oct 2026, 03:3120,602-13
19 Oct 2026, 22:0620,615-19
19 Oct 2026, 01:1820,634first reading

Engagement

86 posts held, back to 23 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 70 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
1.11%
avg views ÷ 20,352 subscribers
Avg views / post
225
39 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.338%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
39
of 86 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 4 of 39 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 8 November 2026
Posts held86 (23 July 2026 – 8 November 2026)
Views total8,794
Reactions total3
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken8 Nov 2026, 15:18 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
≈626
Videos
≈400
Links
≈38,300

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.

Video runtime
9m 24s
Average length
38s

Measured directly from 15 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.

Reaction mix

60 reactions across 27 posts, in 8 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 25.0% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
👍1525.0%
🙏1423.3%
❤1321.7%
🔥915.0%
🌚35.00%
👎35.00%
😢23.33%
🤯11.67%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 28 of the 86 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 60 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 86 most recent posts we hold, published 23 July 2026 to 8 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 0 of 39 posts held from the last 30 days (0%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).

8 Nov 2026, 00:32 UTC124 views1 reactionsread 8 November 2026
Video

Why You Always Check the Trunk https://youtu.be/TXyHir7SdAo

❤1

7 Nov 2026, 01:50 UTC198 viewsread 8 November 2026
Photo

A PIT Spins the Car Out, the Driver Keeps Going | Police Chase Downtown L.A. https://rumble.com/v7ht7su-a-pit-spins-the-car-out-the-driver-keeps-going-police-chase-downtown-l.a..html

7 Nov 2026, 00:32 UTC198 viewsread 8 November 2026
Video

Cops at Every Intersection. Why No Spike Strips? https://youtu.be/qmu-X0jWN2A

6 Nov 2026, 22:32 UTC193 viewsread 8 November 2026
Video

100 MPH on I-35. No PIT. | Pursuit Breakdown https://youtu.be/1FKfRl12Hn0

6 Nov 2026, 17:05 UTC192 viewsread 8 November 2026
Photo

Triple Digits Across L.A., Then the Driver Surrenders on the 10 | CHP Pursuit San Gabriel Valley https://rumble.com/v7ht8k6-triple-digits-across-l.a.-then-the-driver-surrenders-on-the-10-chp-pursuit-.html

6 Nov 2026, 01:45 UTC217 viewsread 8 November 2026
Photo

Stolen SUV Rolls Over After a Trooper's PIT | Florida Highway Patrol Pursuit https://rumble.com/v7ht76c-stolen-suv-rolls-over-after-a-troopers-pit-florida-highway-patrol-pursuit.html

6 Nov 2026, 00:32 UTC209 viewsread 8 November 2026
Video

Why You Can't PIT a Car Doing 100 https://youtu.be/cDELxOkRW3M

5 Nov 2026, 22:31 UTC192 viewsread 8 November 2026
Video

The Foot Bail Is Coming | Pursuit Breakdown https://youtu.be/1FKfRl12Hn0

5 Nov 2026, 17:32 UTC212 viewsread 8 November 2026
Video

Why You Chase a Stolen Car. https://youtu.be/SqknMQbrYVg

5 Nov 2026, 17:10 UTC196 viewsread 8 November 2026
Photo

Believed Armed, 100+ MPH on the 210, Then He Pulls Over | LAPD Pursuit San Fernando Valley https://rumble.com/v7ht6is-believed-armed-100-mph-on-the-210-then-he-pulls-over-lapd-pursuit-san-ferna.html

5 Nov 2026, 01:48 UTC214 viewsread 8 November 2026
Photo

Shredded Tires, Into Oncoming Traffic, Then the Rail | Police Chase San Fernando Valley https://rumble.com/v7ht5kg-shredded-tires-into-oncoming-traffic-then-the-rail-police-chase-san-fernand.html

5 Nov 2026, 01:02 UTC210 viewsread 8 November 2026
Video

Pursuit Coming Up Behind You? Do This. https://youtu.be/SqknMQbrYVg

Showing the 12 most recent of 86 posts we hold for @formerlawman. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 8 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Former Lawman” (@formerlawman), 20,352 subscribers as measured 8 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/formerlawman.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.