The number of black and Latino Pennsylvania State Police is at its lowest point in 10 years, a newspaper reported.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Sunday that over the last decade the number of black troopers declined by 42 percent, partly because of lagging recruitment and a wave of retirements.

The percentage of minorities started to drop at about the same time a federal judge ended oversight of the organization’s hiring practices in early 1999, a newspaper review showed.

In the past few years, the large classes of minority troopers hired in the 1970s and 1980s have begun to retire. As a result, the agency has fewer black troopers than it had in the 1990s.