Roll of Honor
Incident
Sergeant Thomas Stanley died as a result of contracting COVID-19 while serving at the Department of State Hospitals- Atascadero at 10333 El Camino Real in Atascadero.
Sergeant Stanley had served with the California Department of State Hospitals for 14 years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Sergeant Thomas Edward Stanley died on December 31, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 57.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife, daughter, son, two brothers, and a sister.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Sergeant Stanley gave the Atascadero State Hospital Police Department 14 years.
Thank you for your service to the Atascadero community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Stanley.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Sergeant Thomas Edward Stanley is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In CA, 75 of 1,837 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 4.1% of this state's fallen. That is 5 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Thomas Edward Stanley's cause is highlighted.
How Thomas Edward Stanley Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Thomas Edward Stanley is highlighted in Dec.