NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – "The NYPD is reviewing its DNA database after thousands of the samples were collected secretly and include people who are no longer considered suspects in violent crimes.

CBS2’s Aundrea Cline-Thomas was at a city council hearing where the NYPD’s top brass had to defend policies.

Investigators collected DNA evidence from at least 300 men in the 2016 murder of jogger Karina Vetrano in Howard Beach. Chanel Lewis was convicted of her murder last year.

The DNA profiles of the other men who are no longer suspects remain in a database that’s utilized to provide leads in other crimes."

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