The line graph illustrates the differences in three different categories of crime between 2003 and 2012 in Manchester city.
Overall, burglary experienced a significant downward trend whereas robbery in this city stayed constant for these years. Also, car theft was steady and in recent years slightly increased.
Burglary showed only two increases. The first was between 2003 and 2004 for about 500 crimes, then it dramatically decreased until 2008 to approximately 1000. The second was just after that, it increased the same amount as previously and stayed constantly at 1500 between 2009 and 2012.
Robbery and car theft areas showed us slightly different trends from each other. Robbery crime increased slightly, at the same time car theft decreased between 2003 and 2007. Afterwards, robbery stayed at the same amount of crime for the rest of the years. However, car theft showed a confident increase between 2008 and 2012 in Manchester city with a tiny decrease between 2010 and 2011.