The line graph provides information about crime rates for each year between 2003 and 2012 in New Port city center. The graph, divided the number of incidents based on three different types of crime (burglary, car theft, and robbery).
Overall, both burglary and car theft noticeably declined at the end of the period, compared to beginning of the given time line. However, we can’t tell if robbery (theft from the person) declined or increased at the end of the period, because there is no clear information given about it.
At the end of the period, the crime rate of burglary and car theft declined compared to 2003. In 2003 the number of burglary was just under 3500 and in 2004 the number reaches more than 3500. However, between 2004 and 2008 the number dramatically falls. Compared to burglary the rate of car theft shows slight changes over the period, by fluctuating little between 2003 and 2010, and steadily falling after 2010.
On the other hand, we can’t talk much about change over the period based on robbery, but it is clear that the number of robbery incidents stayed around 500 and 1000, while having some minimal ups and downs. Although, there is no clear information given about the years 2003 and 2012, in 2008 there is 500 robbery incident happened in total.