(The Lion) — States from California to Maryland are getting tough on crime, reversing a trend of soft-sentencing and other lenient policies that saw an increase in drugs, shoplifting and assaults in recent years, the Associated Press reports.

When Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe took office Monday, the Republican “unleashed a volley of orders targeting crime,” AP reported, including measures to capture dangerous fugitives and increase pay for veteran state law enforcement officers.

Kehoe also approved training to help state officers assist federal immigration authorities and mandated that officials collect and record the immigration status of people facing criminal charges.

Those efforts will likely help the state partner with the incoming Trump administration, which takes office next week. President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, has promised to conduct “the largest deportation operation in U.S. history,” removing possibly millions of illegal immigrants from the country.

Both red and blue states are adopting the law-and-order approach, a response to the popular sentiment that helped propel Trump to a dominating victory over Democrat Kamala Harris in November.

Even liberal places such as San Francisco are cracking down on crime and rampant homelessness because voters are so fed up.

With the turning tide, laws are being introduced and enacted to increase penalties for everything from sex crimes involving children to distributing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has killed tens of thousands of people annually, AP reports.

The following is a short summary of proposals or actions across various states, reported by AP:

Maryland – In response to shoplifting rings, a Democrat state senator has proposed allowing felony charges against every participant of a group theft if the total value of goods is more than $1,500.

California – Voters by a wide margin approved a November ballot measure to make shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and raise penalties for some drug offenses, including fentanyl. This reverses a 2014 law that allowed misdemeanor charges for theft under $950 and some drug crimes.

Arizona – Voters passed measures to increase penalties for deadly fentanyl sales and require life in prison for certain sex trafficking crimes involving minors.

Missouri – The Republican-controlled Legislature will consider legislation to combat fentanyl, rioting, stunt driving and resisting arrest, as well as to recruit more police.

“Too many Missouri families are being torn apart by violence and crime,” House Speaker Jon Patterson said on the Legislature’s opening day, AP reported. “Nothing is more harmful to the growth of our state than criminals who roam our streets with little fear of punishment.”

Colorado – Voters passed a ballot initiative to increase prison time served before parole for convicts of certain types of burglary, assault, murder, kidnapping, arson, robbery and sexual assault.

Utah – Rep. Matthew Gwynn, a Republican who is also a suburban police chief, wants stiffer fines for big sellers of fentanyl than sales of heroin and methamphetamine, calling fentanyl “almost terroristic in nature because of the amount of people it can kill.”

Louisiana – Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed various laws last year to increase sentences for carjacking and fentanyl, eliminate parole for most crimes and turn back a previous law that treated 17-year-olds as juveniles if they were charged with a crime.

Adam Gelb, president and CEO of the Council on Criminal Justice, told AP that voters “seem to think that the reforms over the past two decades overshot the mark and there needs to be a rebalancing.”

Random and brazen crime “makes people feel vulnerable and suggests there is a sense of lawlessness, a breakdown of behavioral norms,” Gelb said.

Analyst Michael Shellenberger of The Free Press questioned why it took California voters so long to reverse that state’s soft-on-crime policies, although he applauded the move.

He criticized the view that hard drug addicts and the mentally ill were “victims” who should receive handouts as “misguided,” advocating instead for tougher policies and required treatment as an alternative to prison.

“If California does those things, the number of drug deaths could be slashed by half in a year, and brought down by 90 percent within three years,” Shellenberger said, according to Catholic Vote.