The line chart illustrates the trends in three categories of crimes – burglary, car theft and robbery – in Panama City over a nine-year period from 2010 to 2019, with the figures represented in the number of incidents.
Overall, burglary experienced a steep decline over the period, with car theft emerging as the most prevalent crime in 2019, overtaking burglary in 2014. In contrast, robbery remained relatively stable, consistently recording the lowest cases among the three types.
In 2010, starting dominantly at 3400 cases, burglary peaked in 2011 at 3700 cases, six times the 600 incidents recorded for robbery, whereas car theft stood at 2800 occurrences. From 2011 to 2015, however, burglary plummeted, hitting a low of 1000 cases before slightly rebounding and stabilizing around 1400 cases until 2019. Conversely, robbery, which began at 600 cases in 2010, showed minimal fluctuation, hovering around 700 incidents throughout the period despite changes in the other two crime categories. Meanwhile, following the significant drop from 2800 cases in 2010 to 2000 in 2013, car theft incidents steadily increased, surpassing burglary at 2100 cases in 2014 before reaching 2750 cases at the end of the period, cementing its status as the predominant crime.