Yes and the whole point of the article is how amazing and improbable a shot it was. Even a SF veteran was impressed. The fact is most hand gun encounters take place in less than 30 feet and usually with many missed shots.
They have to do it that way. Because while you may see dozens of police officers in the building, there are only a handful that actually do any work and they get assigned to every case.
This is so bad in Elementary that Captain Gregson has to go out and work cases because otherwise Detective Bell would have to work every case single-handed.
Hospitals work the same way.
Big one is the idea that a 98 lbs woman can beat a 300 lbs body builder in arm wrestling. Or drink him under the table.
You can successfully hide your identity for years behind nerd glasses and bad hair.
Also, even ugly* women can be killer sexy babe-alicious with just a few style and wardrobe changes.
Back to bullets… ricochets, even in very close quarters, never hit anything vital. Unless it’s vital to the plot that someone drools blood from their mouth and keels over dead.
It’s never Lupus!
The Binocular Effect, played up for comedic value in Top Secret!
Miniature spy cameras have incredible resolution. Not just the really good resolution you can get by properly using a quality smart phone camera in darn good conditions, but quickly taking pics in very dim light while rapidly and anxiously thumbing thru random documents yield results that Ansel Adams would be proud of!
*TV ugly, of course
to further anyone else’s desperate need for nitpicky pedantry: YMMV 
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I have used a 16mm Minox with ultra high contrast B&W film, so I know you can get ‘workable’ results of a document, properly done. As depicted in movies/TV, tho, color correct, perfect focus, no image blur, noiseless/grainless, 1200 DPI is not going to happen that way!
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Not only that, he’ll immediately cease work on all other cases and devote all his time and resources to proving your innocence. And of course, you’ll be acquitted.
“In real life, nobody talks like this,” he said. “Nobody.”
I understand that. The comment wasn’t that a long shot with a revolver was rare, it’s that it was impossible. It’s not. That’s just one example and that one is also under fire, not at a range. I’ve SEEN those shots at ranges so I know they’re possible, and the article proves they are also possible under fire. Also, an SF guy isn’t an expert on long-range handgun shooting.
This is actually believable. Think of how bloody boring those places must be. Enough to drive anyone to violence just to have something to do.
Remember a fight in an old West saloon (or lots of other bar fights)? Remember how when someone hits someone with a chair or someone falls into a table how it splinters into pieces?
Such fragile furniture! Hmm…
All stray cats jump onto or off of garbage cans, making noises, at the most inopportune moments, and howl for no reason.
First names are completely unique throughout the entire world. For example Walking Dead could go on for 20 more seasons and they would never meet another guy named “Rick”.
After one of these fights, the bartender apparently just goes into the back room and brings out another 8 foot x 16 foot mirror for the wall behind him.
Female cops can run in high heels. Shit, female cops WEAR high heels.
I can still tell which of my students have parents who smoke even though my sense of smell isn’t as good as it was when I was younger. Just being around someone who smokes is enough to make their hair, clothes, and skin smell like tobacco smoke up to at least 8–10 hours later. I coach an after school fitness program and can smell the traces on a couple of the kids at 6:00 p.m. when they left home at around 7:00 a.m.
You think you don’t smell. You do.
Up front: I don’t fault Hollywood for speeding things up to keep a story moving along. A TV show has to be wrapped up in an hour, and nobody wants to watch Penelope Garcia waiting 3 minutes for her computer to boot up! Similarly, CSI would be a drag if we had to see Grissom waiting months for DNA tests to come back. A show CANNOT be completely realistic and entertaining.
Still, I worked in the computer world for 28 years, and I wish I could have gotten ANYTHING done in the few strokes it takes TV hackers to get into the Pentagon mainframe and launch nuclear missiles!
Of course you can tell, but that doesn’t negate or refute Joey P’s statement that it’s possible for a smoker to go undetected by taking proper steps. You’re talking about people who have spent time in a smoking environment, and what you say is true for that situation. He’s talking about a smoker who takes pains to make sure that smoke residue is not present on his body or clothing. Apples and oranges.
You think I don’t smoke because you can’t smell it on me. Yet I do.
(Did, actually, I gave it up. But there were times when even people who were VERY sensitive to cigarette smoke had no clue that I smoked.)
I always liked that NYPD Blue had three different opening-credits-level characters named John. Two of them at the same time. (They called one “Upstairs John.”)
The slow clap.
The series Diagnosis Murder lampshaded this trope. Shelly Long played a mystery writer who was stuck for an idea and was up against a deadline for her next novel. She killed her agent and stood back and watched as the police searched for clues to solve the murder. Unfortunately for her, the police did their job too well and she was arrested.