How do police shoot in urban areas?

Say you are a cop in an urban/suburban setting, and it is time to shoot at the bad guy who is in a yard or other similar setting. Now what? Unload into the populated darkness around a persons house with windows in the not so distant distance. Obviously a criminal who deserves to be shot at is not going to use the same level of discretion, so do you sort of aim down so that if a bullett doesn’t hit where you want it to hit it will at least be on a downward path?