The differences in three types of crimes over the years 2002-2012, in Manchester city center, are illustrated in the graph.
Overall, it can be seen that burglary crimes saw a decrease after going through a lot of fluctuations. While robberies also went through small fluctuation, the numbers remained almost same after 11 years. On the other hand, car thefts increased steadily.
Around 3500 burglaries occurred in 2003 before reaching their peak in 2004 with an alarming value of almost 3700. This number saw a steep decrease going to its lowest in 2008. Slowly, burglary crimes again started to increase and maintained a number of around 1500 from 2009-2012. On the contrary, car thefts started off with nearly 2400 in 2003 and slowly decreased till 2006 to 2000. This value steadily increased over 6 years to reach its maximum of around 2700 in 2012. Similarly, robberies also showed somewhat same trends with slight changes. With nearly 500 robberies in 2003, the value slowly rose, getting to its peak in 2005. There was a gradual decrease for the next 2 years. A steady rise followed this downfall and all in all, in 2012, the numbers reached a same value as in 2003.
