The chart below shows three different crimes and the number of cases committed between 1970 and 2005 in England and Wales. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

The line chart below displays the number of

cases

of car theft, house burglary and street robbery in the United Kingdom and Wales from 1970 to 2005.

Overall

, car stealing increased significantly over the entire time period.

While

the robbery of houses rose moderately. At the beginning of the period, there were 0.4

million

cases

of car theft,

this

grew steadily to 1

million

over the next 10

years

, before increasing dramatically

in

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0.6

million

in the next 5

years

. From 1995 these crime

cases

started to drop sharply,

whereas

in 2005 it went back to 1

million

, maintaining its position as the most committed crime. In 1970, 0.2

million

house burgling happened, it doubled in the first five

years

, from 1975 to 1980,

this

steeply peaked, where in 1980 there were around 0.9

million

cases

, in the same year it started to fall moderately to 0.6

million

in 1985. From 1985 to 1990, it slightly rocketed to approximately 0.7

million

,

this

was maintained during the next five

years

and during the

last

10

years

it fell modestly, ending the period at just over 0.5

million

.