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The line chart here represents burglary, car theft and robbery in New Port City from 2003 to 2012.
Overall, there has been a sharp decline in the burglary whereas both car theft and robbery maintains a steady profile through the period. Robberies were least common throughout yet also rose marginally.
By the end of 2003 Burglary tops among both the other types of crime with incidents recorded above 3500. But it took a sharp decline thereafter and in the year 2008 it recorded less than 1500 cases, lower than car theft and with highest declination rate among other two areas of crime.
On the other hand if we look into the cases of car theft, it has also declined slightly in the number of cases from around 2700 to 2000 during the period of 2003 to 2006. From the year 2006 it started gaining upward trend in the increased number of cases and recorded back to over 2500 cases by the year 2012.
Robbery (theft from the person) maintained a sinusoidal profile with slight increased in the number of cases during the year 2004 and then decline gradually to 500 which marks the least cases recorded among other two types. By the end of 2012 when compared to burglary and car theft robbery remains with the lowest number of recorded cases.
