An approach is disclosed for detecting cornering spots capable of facilitating crowd control by limiting a mobility of a crowd. The approach involves, for example, collecting satellite, aerial, and/or street-level imagery associated with one or more geographic features of a geographic area. The approach also involves determining at least one cornering spot along with one or more attributes of the cornering spot characterizing the effectiveness of the cornering spot to assist in crowd control. Cornering spot data can be stored in a geographic database and/or displayed in an application on user equipment.