When he's not calling out yahoos for having massive parties during a pandemic or making cheesecake, Doug Ford plans to be cracking down on violent offenders across Ontario.

The premier gave a message to the criminals behind the recent spate of shootings and other crimes in and around Toronto during his press briefing on Thursday: "We're coming after you, we'll throw the book at you and we're going to put you behind bars."

#BREAKING: @fordnation just announced $6 million dollars from crime proceeds to combat guns, gangs, sexual violence & human trafficking. @fordnation's message to criminals: "we're coming after you." #Ontario

— Sean Grech (@SeanGrechCTV) August 6, 2020

Ford cited the GTA tow truck turf war that has been ongoing for more than a year now, an increase in instances of domestic abuse, and the countless incidents of gun violence across the area, including the six that took place within less than 24 hours earlier this month.

In a time when populations are calling for police to be defunded, Ford's team is now allocating an additional $6 million to cops in 16 forces provincewide to help fight these types of crimes — however, the funds aren't coming from taxpayer dollars, but rather from criminals themselves.

The grant will be available to police services to implement crime prevention and safety initiatives that help fight gun and gang violence, human trafficking, and sexual violence. The grant is supported with funds forfeited during criminal prosecutions.https://t.co/OD1gUJk5tj

— CCFR/CCDAF (@CCFR_CCDAF) August 6, 2020

Using money seized in major busts, the province will launch 21 new projects focused on stopping gun and gang violence, human trafficking, and sexual and domestic assault over the next three years. This includes $300,000 to Durham Regional Police and $600,000 each to Toronto Police and York Regional Police for various initiatives.

"Too many of our young people are being recruited and preyed on by these gangs, too many of our young women and girls are preyed on by human traffickers. It's disgusting, and we're going to work with our police partners to intervene earlier and stop these heinous crimes," Ford said today.

The @fordnation police budget builder - crime proceeds! Motivating arrests and #police operations by linking it to the police budget may have some negative effects. It’s kind of an “arrest for $” approach. Focus is placed on gathering $ and assets to keep budget amounts up.

— Bill O'Leary (@talk2oleary) August 6, 2020

This early intervention will include working with community stakeholders to build educational campaigns aimed at groups vulnerable to things like human trafficking, special trauma-informed training for frontline responders, additional community patrols, community "diversion" programming, and establishing new resources for victims.

The health crisis and months of lockdown apparently haven't tempered Toronto's notorious growing gun violence problem, with the city rocked by shootings in mall parking lots, at Airbnbs, outside popular hotels and on busy thoroughfares over the past few months.

We are taking $6M from the hands of criminals and using it to build safer communities and fight crime.

These funds will help implement 21 initiatives that stop:
🚫 Gang violence
🚫 Human trafficking
🚫 Sexual violence

Learn more: https://t.co/XPkbcECkIU pic.twitter.com/VGfPYeXMsu

— Doug Ford (@fordnation) August 6, 2020

In the last couple of days alone, a woman was injured in a daylight shooting on Queen West in Toronto, a man was shot and killed in Vaughan and another in Mississauga, a Richmond Hill resident was shot and robbed in his own driveway, another homicide took place in Oak Ridges and a drive-by shooting happened in Scarborough.