the chart below shows the changes that took place in three different areas of crime in newport city centre from 2003-2012

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The provided line chart represents the comparison among three different kinds of crime in Newport city centre for 9 years from 2003 to 2012.
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, it can be clearly observed that the rates of burglary plunged which was the most common case the first time and was replaced by car theft the next time. Meanwhile, robbery remained stable throughout the period. Moving on to the details, the number of burglaries stood at nearly 3500 and next they moderately increased to around 3800 in 2004 which was the highest point of crime among other types in
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city.
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, there was a plummet to roughly 1200, decreasing more than half compared to previously in 2008. After dramatically declining, it witnessed a fluctuation for the
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four years to almost 1500
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of the period.
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, there was a constant in the figure for car theft between 2003 and 2005 at approximately 2800,
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it decreased sequentially to 2000 in 2006.
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experienced a ceiling trend and it
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took over the position of burglary from 2006 until the rest of the years, accounting for about 2600 in 2012.
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, there were approximately 700 cases of robberies in 2003, which was the
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incident; after that, these fluctuated throughout the period and in 2012 accounted for almost the same as in 2003.

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