The graphs show crimes that took place in the city of Greenvale and arrests from 2010 to 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and report the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graphs show crimes that took place in the city of Greenvale and arrests from 2010 to 2019.

Summarise the information by selecting and report the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The graphs show the frequency of three types of crime and the sum of adult and juvenile arrests in a city called Greenvale between 2010 and 2019.
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it is clear that
the most common atrocity over the nine-year period was burglary. ​The number of
such
offences fell significantly during that period. Total car thefts in the city
also
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but at a lower rate
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On the detention front,
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Looking at the delinquency rate in additional detail, approximately 300 homes were damaged in 2010
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Just over 100 cars were stolen and about 80 people were robbed in the same year. Crime involving homes and cars rose sharply in 2011. Over the next eight years,
however
, the statistics of these incidents gradually declined. The robberies of the men, meanwhile, were not significantly modified. The same spike was evident in arrests in 2011
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when approximately 340 adults and 80 youths were apprehended
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Catch-and-release for adults essentially halved after that,
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jailing juveniles doubled by 2019.
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