The given line chart provides the variations in crimes of burglary, car theft and robbery in Manchester city centre from 2003 to 2012. The number of crimes in a year is measured in terms of thousands.
Overall, it can be seen that burglary spiked in the initial years but then saw a steep fall in its numbers. Moreover, car theft witnessed fluctuations in early years and then it noticeably grew in later years. Additionally, crime in robbery saw quite a few variations and reached almost its initial value at the end of the time period.
As seen in the chart, burglary had a value of slightly under 3500 in 2003 and in a year, it had a sudden rise at around 3700. As the years passed, it had a sharp downfall and reached the value of approximately 1000 in 2008. It again had an increase in the later years and by 2012, its value was noticeably high at around 1500.
Moving onto robbery, its value was a little over 500 in 2003. It faced a considerable rise and fall until 2012, but the highest number of robberies were noted in 2005 with the value of slightly under 1000. At the end of the period in 2012, the value was around 500. Furthermore, car thefts were at a high value of around 2400 in 2003. There were substantial changes over the years, and car thefts at around 2500 were committed in 2010. In the next two years, in 2012, the maximum number of car thefts at approximately 2700 were recorded.