To “always carry” something in Finnish
«Kantaa aina» jotakin …
Who “carries” guns in Finland? Do cops “always” carry their weapons? There are YouTube videos but I do not believe people are telling the truth in them.
«Kantaa aina» turns out to be a hideously strange phrase in Finnish, the primary example being …
«Poliisi kantaa aina mukanaan virkamerkkiä.»
Police “always” carry their badges with them in Finland. It is most likely that they do not have that authority without their badges in their immediate possession.
By nature Finns cannot be burdened or bothered, and it would be against nature for a Finn to “always” carry or wear anything. One would never use the adverb «aina» with the verb «kantaa» unless the object is in fact something required by law to be carried all the time.
No one but the police “always” carries or wears anything in Finland. Except perhaps criminals with ankle monitoring bracelets.
Of course it would be nothing new in Finland for police to go against nature, or to enforce laws that are unnatural or against nature. That would tell us that something is likely either a lie or an exaggeration when it is “always” or “never” because the Finns are not absolutists.
So that is effectively a Finnish cop drinking a shot of vodka and flipping his badge at the bar on Facebook. Have you socialized with enough socialist cops in socialist countries yet?