The chart below shows the changes that took place in three different areas of crime in Newport city center from 2003-2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given graph illustrates information on how the number of incidents has changed in three types of crime,

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as burglary, car theft, and robbery in Newport city centre over a decade.

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, the differences in rates of burglaries are much stronger than in other areas.  Suppose that the number of car thefts and robberies are similar at the beginning of the timeline and in the ending,

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there was a dramatic decrease in burglary rates, which were a little bit less than 3500 cases in 2003 and dropped by 2000 till 2012. 

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, the quantity of car thefts has seen a steady movement first two years. After it reached a low point in 2006. There was a fluctuation in

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crime type next four years and

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it became a growing and came back to its starting value. What about the robberies, there was a slight rise from 2003 to 2005.

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, the percentage of robberies experienced a gradual decline till 2008 and in that year it bottomed out.

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, it increased and constituted about 500 incidents in 2012.