The trust of the public has been betrayed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

That’s the only conclusion we can reach, after the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP released its findings, two years after the tragic death of Robert Dziekanski.

He was, of course, the Polish immigrant whose death by Taser was captured on video, to be seen on computers around the world.

At the time, viewers instinctively knew that Dziekanski never had a chance.

Now, we know that to be true.

The commission found that the RCMP made no attempt to de-escalate the situation, that the use of the Taser was “premature and inappropriate,” and that officers made no attempt to determine whether the Taser needed to be deployed more than once.

And, when it was all over, officers failed to provide appropriate first aid or monitor Dziekanski after he was tasered four times in less than a minute.

The commission also noted that the officers were left alone together before they gave their statements, an inappropriate opportunity to get their stories straight.

The entire tragic event gives us little to no confidence in the RCMP to use Tasers properly, given what occurred in the Vancouver airport on Oct. 14, 2007.

Tasers are not toys, and criminals are still people.

These two facts seem to have escaped the officers involved in this case.

If they had remembered either one of them, Mr. Dziekanski might be alive today.

Instead, there is a grieving mother, a dead son, and a lost trust.

It will be a long time before that trust is regained.