The line chart compares how the crime rate contributed by three different categories changed in two various places over a period of 35 years, starting from 1970.
Overall, it can be seen that car theft and house burgling showed an upward trend before declining; street robbery followed the lowest but slight increase to the end. Despite some fluctuations, car theft remained higher than house burgling.
According to the chart, car theft stood at 0.40 million in 1970, compared to just 0.20 million by house burgling, which meant that this crime occurred far less than other crimes. As for car theft, the figure rose steadily for 20 years, and after that, there was a rapid increase in 1995, rocketing to just 1.60, after which it had decreased and remained at its peak point at just 1.00 million in 2005, this figure being the highest crime rate in this graph. However, the same cannot be said for house burgling, which increased to approximately 0.7 million in 1990 followed by a stability in the next 5 years; it gradually trended downward to just under 0.6 million in 2005.
In contrast, the crime rate of street robbery started at the lowest point and remained relatively flat for most of the period, but it showed a small rise in the end, about 0.3 million by 2005.