Hey Jeff,
I'm unfamilar with WA's laws, but here in OR, 10 tickets in a 5 year period gets you classified as a Habitual Offender and thats a mandatory 10 year suspension. At one time, I was damned close so that how I found out about this.
Insurance companies take a dim view of anyone collecting 3 tickets in a year and thats even more costly.
I won't even go into the revenue aspect of traffic enforcement; here in OR, the fines are very high now and a nice income stream for the empty state coffers.