You're talking about the same Finland where the police force:
- writes its own search warrants
- raids gardening stores because their equipment "could be used" to grow illegal drugs
- tries to charge people with wiretapping for recording them during a home visit
- conducts body & home searches in the middle of the streets based on inaccurate drug dog detections
- falsely blocks informative sites about our internet blocklist for years without any accountability or response
- and raids 8-year olds for downloading a couple of songs
It's just as shit here as it is there.
Wow. Has it always been that way or did it change in recent history?
I guess I am thinking of Norway with the 20-year maximum murder sentence.
That is a bit misunderstood. Norway does indeed have a maximum prison sentence of 21 years, which is called "life in prison", but preventive detention can be used to effectively keep convicts incarcerated for the rest of their lives if deemed necessary for the safety of the public.
That part's true; Finland does have relatively short prison sentences and heavy use of parole and prison alternatives, in line with the rest of the Nordic countries.
Towards the bottom I had to look back at the top to make sure you said Finland and not America.
In the USA, Carmen Ortiz would be sending in cops to shoot their dog and seize their computer.