Federated Learning Approach for Predicting Conviction Using FIR Data
摘要
Crime rates in India have surged rapidly in recent years. This increase has significantly strained the judicial and investigative systems, resulting in numerous cases remaining unresolved or delayed. Prolonged case hearings have a profound impact on the nation’s social and judicial institutions, disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities that may lack the resources to pursue lengthy legal battles, thereby undermining their faith in the justice system. First Information Reports (FIRs) serve as critical records of criminal incidents, containing valuable information about suspects and case details. Analyzing FIR data can be instrumental in predicting potential convictions. However, due to data privacy concerns, police stations do not disclose or provide open access to FIR data. This necessitates the development of methods that analyze FIR data while preserving privacy, leading to the adoption of Federated Learning (FL) as an effective solution. FL allows data to remain decentralized while enabling collaborative model training, thus addressing privacy challenges. In this study, historical FIR data from Karnataka State is utilized to train Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models for predicting convictions. Various classification algorithms are implemented, including Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, XGBoost, and Neural Networks. Random Forest achieved the highest classification performance, with an accuracy of 98% on test set, highlighting the model’s potential for deployment in privacy-sensitive environments. On implementing various FL methods on Random Forest, 95% was achieved with FedAvg. This study demonstrates the feasibility of privacy-preserving conviction prediction using decentralized FIR data.