Bellevue doesn’t really have to directly shunt people to Seattle. All they have to do is be annoying enough in strictly enforcing their laws (via arrest, even if king county won’t prosecute), which just makes it more convenient to be in Seattle if you want to sleep on a bench or something (Bellevue will have swat out in 5 minutes if you so much as lay down on a bench in a park). And there is a huge fentanyl crisis going on, and Seattle’s drug permissive law enforcement just means we get more of it (especially here in Ballard).