The chart below shows the changes that took place in three different areas of crime in New Port city center from 2003-2012.
The graph illustrates the changing
rates
of crime including burglary
, car theft
and robbery in New Port City over a span of 9 years, between 2003 and 2012.
Overall
, the rates
of burglary
and car theft
decreased, while
robbery rates
stayed almost the same throughout this
period of time from 2003-2012.
In 2003, around 3500 cases
of burglary
were witnessed and this
went up rapidly to just above 3750 in 2004. Moreover
, from 2004 to 2008, burglary
rates
fell considerably to almost 1200 incidents. Finally
, the incidents contributing to burglary
fluctuated at around 1300 cases
between 2008 and 2012.
Regarding robbery or theft
from the person, the number of cases
reported remained quite the same during the whole period at approximately 600 reports. Car theft
cases
met wild fluctuations over the period of 9 years from 2003 to 2012 and decreased non-significantly and slightly from around 2800 cases
in 2003 to 2600 by the end of 2012.Submitted by fati.p98n on
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