Another week, another controversy. This has been the trend this summer for the Texas Department of Public Safety. Yes, the same Department of Public Safety which brought you tampongate, poopgate, and various other mishandlings at the State Capitol over the past few months, now brings you yet another disturbing case.

Several news sources have revealed alarmingly similar videos showing Texas State Troopers conducting illegal cavity searches during separate traffic stops.

The troopers' own dash camera videos show two similar cases: pairs of women being pulled over for minor reasons. After a series of questions on drug suspicions without any evidence, the male DPS agent calls in a female state trooper to search and probe the women in full-on cavity searches off the side of the road — in full view of passing motorists. If that wasn't disturbing enough, the incidents also reveal that the female troopers fail to change gloves between probes.

In these two separate small-scale incidents, DPS agents find it necessary to conduct illegal, humiliating cavity searches of women on full display to passers-by along the highway. There have also been reports of a third similar incident.

After a series of poorly-managed incidents at the Texas Capitol this summer, one has to wonder what kind of protocol, if any, is being directed internally. Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, who oversees state troopers, has commented in earlier statements about the videotaped traffic stops that his department "does not and will not tolerate any conduct that violates the U.S. and Texas constitutions, or DPS training or policy." Unfortunately, these incidents prove something otherwise.

The first of these incidents occurred near the end of 2012. Seen in the video above, the women were initially pulled over by Trooper David Farrell, who then questioned the two about marijuana after supposedly smelling the drug in the vehicle. Failing to find evidence of it in the car, he requested the women be searched by Trooper Kelly Helleson.

After passing a roadside sobriety test, the women were not charged with anything — only given warnings for littering. Later on, both women reported that despite being internally probed, their socks or shoes were not.

Since then, the female DPS officer Trooper Helleson was fired, while Trooper Farrell was only suspended.

In the second case, which occurred in May, the other pair of women were pulled over for speeding in Brazoria county. Driving back from the beach, the two women reported how when they were ordered out of their vehicle and not permitted to put on clothes to cover the bikinis they had been wearing earlier that day. When the driver asks if she can put her dress on to cover up, the State Trooper Nathaniel Turner denied her, saying, "Don't worry about it. Come out here."

A similar pattern occurs: the trooper claimed to smell marijuana in the car, asks the women if they are hiding any. With no evidence, the trooper calls for backup to search the women.

Despite not being allowed to put on clothes before stepping out of the vehicle, the trooper still makes accusatory claims, as he states on the radio: "One of them has got her zipper open on her pants of her daisy dukes shorts — whatever they are."

Two more troopers show up. The original Trooper Turner explains that the female troopers will search the women stating, "I ain't about to get up-close and personal with your woman areas," but doesn't seem to mind ordering the female officer doing so. One of the bewildered women asks on the tape, "You're going to go up my private parts?"

Both women received cavity searches. Both recorded by the DPS dash cameras, and again, conducted with the same glove. Nothing was found on either of them. And again, reports later reveal the female trooper who probed the women was fired, while the male trooper initiating the search was suspended.

There are several questions to ask with these cases: Why are the female officers who conducted the search the only ones fired, while the male troopers who actually called and initiated the search are only suspended?

Additionally, what in DPS protocol requires this type of escalation, from littering to full cavity searches? Why would these separate incidents result in the same actions? With so many of these troopers involved, why is the illegality of these searches not mentioned once?

After the collection of incidents that have occurred this year, there seems to be a dire need to re-evaluate the current leadership and protocol for the Texas Department of Public Safety. How much more does it take? Where do we draw the line on this criminalization of women's bodies?