Claiming the New York City Police Department has been adding DNA samples from suspects not charged with crimes to a controversial city DNA databank rather than taking steps to reduce uncharged suspect’s DNA collection, The Legal Aid Society on Monday called for lawmakers to enact legislation abolishing the databank.

In a detailed news release, The Legal Aid Society of New York asserts that at a City Council hearing in February 2020, high-ranking police officials “promised to take steps to reduce” the number DNA profiles of uncharged suspects “by removing [from the databank] people who have never been charged or convicted of a crime.” However, says Legal Aid in the release, “according to information [it] obtained,” there appears to have been an increase to the databank of more than 1,000 profiles of uncharged suspects as of May 2020—jumping from roughly 32,000 profiles in February to 33,825 profiles of “potentially innocent New Yorkers” in May.