Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR), crime has increased in the United States over the last two decades
2. The goal of the crime control model is to protect individual rights
3. The garbage can model holds that output of the policy process becomes more complicated and "messier" than the initial input
4. A critique of the iron triangles model is that it focuses on only a few of the policy participants, while ignoring the many others
5. Gun ownership remains widespread, but a smaller percentage of gun owners possess an increasing percentage of the gun stock


1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

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