The peacekeepers from Utopia are equally bumbling, which may lead us to wonder if Utopia is such a great place after all. Perhaps that's why they irritate me so much: I am a huge fan of competence, and we get precious little of that sometimes.
Not to defend the bumbling Peacekeepers (because they really do suck at their job), but I always got the sense that they were more for show than anything else. That Utopia was so peaceful and prefect and boring that no one ever really committed any crimes or got in trouble, so the Peacekeepers really didn't know what they were doing at all. Again, not to excuse them for sucking at their job, but it certainly does explain things a little.
