Desc: Detroit Threat Management: Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman. Detroit Threat Management is the chronicle of an urban paramilitary, the people who join it, the man who leads them, and the city from which they have sprouted to fill a disturbing gap in public service. Filmmaker Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman spent over two years embedded with the VIPERS and their ambitious leader, Commander Brown, gathering moments both macabre and tender.