The provided chart illustrates the number of three different kinds of crime incidents that took place in Newport city center between 2003 and 2012.
Overall, there was a violence downward trend in the frequency of burglary incidents that occurred in the inner city. However, the rate of car theft had experience a decline for a number of years then increased to it regular rate. Moreover, the number of robbery crimes saw a slight fluctuation throughout the ten year period.
In 2003, there were approximately 3500 incidents of burgle that took place in inner city, which peaked in 2004, reaching around 3750 incidents. Following this year, this figure decreased significantly, which more than halved in 2007 with 1500 incidents. It continued to decline, reaching its least in 2008 just over 1000 incident. Moreover, this trend rose to around 15000 incidents in 2009 and remained the same for the rest of the ten year period.
However, the rate of car theft incidents plagued for three years starting from 2003 to 2005, which was just below 3000 incidents. Then, decreased be around 1000 incidents, reaching 2000 incidents in 2006, which was considered the lowest number of car theft incidents throughout the given period. After that, this figure rise slightly, exceeding 2500 in 2012.
Lastly, the number of robbery incidents was considered low compered to the other crimes, which fluctuated between 1000 incidents to 500 incidents throughout the ten year period.