Recent research has shown that media like Internet and TV have a greater influence over people's lives than politicians. Which do yo consider to be the greater influence??

The line graph provides information about the rate of crime in three different areas namely burglary, car theft and robbery in
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of New Port
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between 2003 and 2012. Overall, burglary showed
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downward trend in crime, whereas car theft and robbery remained relatively stable. In
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of Burglary,
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of incidents were less than 3500 in 2003, which rose markedly to reach a peak of around 3750 in 2004, which
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of nearly 1250, number of incidents. After that, it grew slowly to reach approximately 1500 in 2009 and remained stable at nearly 1500 in 2012.
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car theft incidents numbers were roughly 2750 in 2003, which dropped dramatically to 2000 in 2006. The crime rate remained
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till 2009, which
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inclined to reach more than 2500 in 2010, ending up with a slight rise to 2750 in 2012.
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of reported cases of robbery remained fluctuating starting from about 600 in 2003, to 750 in 2012.
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