arrow Ron Dale / Shutterstock Nearly 10 months after promising cuts to New York City’s controversial DNA database, city authorities have barely made a dent in reducing its scope, according to the city’s own records. In February, the NYPD promised to downsize the city’s DNA database, which advocates have criticized for perpetually retaining the genetic signatures of tens of thousands of residents, many of whom had their samples taken without consent. With some exemptions, the removals were supposed to affect residents in the database whose profiles were at least two years old and who had not been convicted of crimes at the time of review.