The line graph illustrates three different kind of crimes that occurred in Newport city centre between 2003 and 2012.

The given line chart depicts incident figures which are a burglary, a car theft and a robbery that were committed in Newport city from 2003 to 2012.

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, it is obvious that burglary was the most common crime in the first part of the recorded period but in the rest

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there was a higher number of car thefts. The burglary figures smoothly increased in the beginning and reached a peak at over 3500 incidents during the 2004 year. After that was a dramatic decline until 2008 when it fell to its lowest point at around 1250 accidents.

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we can see a period of fluctuation for the rest years. Meanwhile, car thefts had a different trend,

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, the number of incidents remained stable for the first 3 years,

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dropped steadily at over 2000 events and fluctuated smoothly until 2008.

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, in 2009 there was a relative growth of

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a crime which reached the second highest point at over 2500 in 2010 and declined slightly for 2

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years. Robbery has the most stable trend in comparison to other crimes. The number of accidents was above 500 in the beginning and remained almost the same in the end. The lowest point was

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exactly 500 figures in 2008.