State Police still working to improve troopers’ diversity

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The State Police is struggling to diversify as its new academy classes continue to be whiter than the department’s overall force and the people of the state it polices.

“We have some work to do,” State Police Director Col. James Grady II said. “I’m not happy with the current demographics of the agency.”

State Police officers are 90 percent white, according to the latest department data.

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