Observations Commentary If you’re a DPS trooper, and you can pass the department’s annual physical-fitness test, then why should the size of your waist matter? At least that’s the question asked in a recent lawsuit filed Oct. 2 by the Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association. Last year, Texas DPS’s head honchos, led by the very lean DPS director Steven McCraw, sent out word to its commissioned officers that a change was coming with regard to physical fitness. By Sept. 1, 2020, the men would have to have a waistline of no more than 40 inches; the female officers, no more ...