The line chart illustrates the frequency of three criminal activities: car theft, house burglary, and street robbery in a specific metropolistan area from 1970 to 2005, at five-year intervals.
Overall, all crimes witnessed an escalation in the number throughout. However, only street robbery exhibited the highest stability during the period.
Regarding carjacking, only 0,4 million cases were committed in 1970. Moreover, the number recorded a steady rise to precisely 1 million in 1990, before surging to 1,6 million in 1995 and then plunging again to one million in the year of 2005.
Concerning housebreaking, it experienced a significant increase from 0,2 million to its peak at roughly 0,9 million cases. After that, the figure suddenly dropped by approximately 0,3 million in the following 5 years and fluctuated at 0,6 million between 1985 and 2000. Eventually, it finished at around 0.5 million at the end of the duration.
As for street stealing, it remained unchanged at its low with about 0,1 million situations in the first five years. Nevertheless, only until 1990, the quantity of street robbery cases beheld to its top at the initial point of vehicle theft.