The line graph illustrates the changes in three different areas of crime in the city throughout the period from 2003 to 2012. The Y-axis illustrates the number of crimes, while the X-axis illustrates the total of years.
Overall, the change in both the robbery and car theft occupations remains relatively steady, but with slight fluctuations throughout all 9 years. Conversely, the change in the burglary occupation shows dramatic decrease since 2004 to 2008. However, the change after remaines stable from 2009 to 2012.
The change in the burglary crime shows the decreasing trend from 2004 with just over 3,500 number of crimes to 2008 with just over 1,000. Though this number has increased for 500 which reached 1,500 in total. Since 2009 the number of crimes in the burglary occupation has remained stable with slight wavering from the number 1,500 to fewer than 1,400.
On the other hand, the number of robbery acts remained in the same range from a bit more than 500 to fewer than 1000 throught all periods (9 years). The total of car theft crime remained more or less stable from 2003 to 2008, fluctuating between the number 2,000, and a bit less than 2,500. However, started from 2008 the number has increased steadily to 2010 with around 2,550. Moreover, this number continues to increase from 2011 to 2012, adding more than 300 to the number in 2010.
