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Crime rate and police strength per 100,000 population, Canada, 1962 to 2011

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This is a line chart.
The left vertical axis is "Criminal Code incidents (excluding traffic) per 100,000 population".
The left vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 12,000 with ticks every 2,000 points.
The right vertical axis is "Police officers per 100,000 population".
The right vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 300 with ticks every 50 points.
The horizontal axis is "Years".
There are in total 8 categories in the horizontal axis.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The title of series 1 is "Crime rate".
The title of series 2 is "Police strength".