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

Given is the line graph that illustrates movement of criminal rates in three different types in Newport city over a decade between 2003 and 2012. As can be seen, the number of incidents in burglary has shown a downward trend by rest of the period.

To begin with, What stands out from the graph, robbery incidents went up slightly from 600 in 2003 to 900 in 2005, before a considerable decline to 500 in 2008, followed by a fluctuation to 600 in 2012. Similarly, despite climbing to the highest point of 3800 in 2004, the figure of burglary decreased significantly to its lowest point of 1100 in 2008, and then there was a slight increase by 300 in number of incidents in the next four years period.

On the countrary, having remained stable at 2600 from 2003 to 2005, car theft then rose dramatically to 2600 between 2005 and 2010, followed by fluctuation to 2800 in 2012.

To sum up, the crime rates of in Newport city have tented to remain unchanged in the last two years period.

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