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Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney, who was payne’s teacher at Yale, has described the play as a search for “utopia in a world that has a criminal justice system that is far from perfect.”

Specifically, the $2.7 trillion estimate includes: $1.1 trillion for lives lost; $1.34 trillion for reduced quality of life; and $277 billion in healthcare, productivity and criminal justice costs.

This, the council said, could address disadvantages faced within the criminal justice system.

"Repeated statistical analysis has demonstrated what some of us consider to be unfairness in relation to black and brown people, and the criminal justice system," she said.

A spokesperson for GMP says delays in the wider criminal justice system affected Wall's case and the force achieved positive outcomes for more than 3,000 victims of this type of crime last year.