President Donald Trump’s recent focus on crime in Washington D.C. and other big cities has come as views of his handling of immigration — the early focus of his second term — had been flagging as polls signaled rising concerns that he was taking his mass deportation campaign too far. Trump’s approach to crime is now a clear strength for him, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Trump’s tough-on-crime turn happened alongside a small boost in his overall approval rating. It’s another case of Trump shifting the national conversation to his advantage, often by seizing on Americans’ most deep-seated fears and using hyperbolic language and shock-and-awe tactics that push legal bounds.