The line chart illustrates how many incidents of car theft, house burglary, and street robbery in a given city during the 35-year period, starting from 1970.
In general, while incidents of car thefts and house burgling followed upward trends and fluctuated dramatically, the opposite pattern was seen in the figure for street robbery.
Starting the chart with 0,40 million, car theft was the situation occurred the most in 1970. After that, it witnessed a significant increase until 1990, at 1.00 million of events. Then, this figure rose steeply to a peek of 1.60 million in 1995. From then on, this one decrease sharply, and arrived at 1.00 million in 2005, indicating a general decline. Following the same overall trend, the number of house burgling per day climb dramatically from 0.20 million to hit the highest point of around 0.90 million in 1980. From then on, this figure fluctuated markedly around 0.70 million and reached 0.50 million incidents by the of the period. This meant that in 2005, car thefts were the most popular incidents among incidents in that city.
In contrast, the number of street robbery increase slightly over the surveyed period. In detail, it started the chart with above 0.10 million, and remain stable around 0.10 million of incidents. Until 1990, there was a slight growth, reaching 0.40 at 2005.