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[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hundreds if not thousands of Finnish cops got caught belonging to a chat group where they were sharing pretty explicitly neo-Nazi material. A few cops even got caught planning to murder leftist politicians and making it clear that they'd already used police systems to dig up information on leftists and given it to extremist groups.

Nothing ever came of either of those. The prosecutors sided with the cops in the latter case, saying something like "it's not criminal to have bad thoughts."

Saying that the majority of our cops and prosecutors are literal fascists probably wouldn't be far off the mark, much to the surprise of exactly nobody.