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It certainly seems to be a disproportionate issue in Berlin.
Berlin has the largest Arab population and a relatively stronger "radical" left compared to other cities. Berlin also has the largest Zionist population in Germany and Zionist lobby organizations are most present in Berlin, both for historic reasons and as Berlin is the capital city.
The current mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner is a Machiavellian opportunist and a Ethno-nationalist. He won the last state level elections after he called for police to release the first names of juvenile suspects, so that people could judge if those juvenile suspects were "real Germans" or "just German citizens". The current government also is reactionary in many other aspects such as stopping the expansion of public transport and bicycle infrastructure, slashing funding for social programs and cultural institutions and the like. The claim that it would bring order to the notoriously dysfunctional public administration of Berlin at the same time keeps being disappointed, while the cost of living also keeps exploding.
So you have a racist and repressive government, which has allied with and tokenized the Zionist lobby early on, in particular the Axel Springer media, and is failing in most regards of governance. It has a vested interest in presenting itself as successful and Berlin under threat from "Islamist migrants" and "extreme leftists", against which is protects the city. This meets a large population of people who suffer directly as their friends and relatives are being slaughtered and a left scene that won't relent easily to government repression, most notably at two of the three large universities. The left scene in Berlin is also more international, so the "antideutsch" pro-Israel "left" is relatively weaker, albeit not less confrontational.
I hope this gives an idea, of the factors coming into play. In regards to general police violence against progressive causes, Berlin police is bad, but we see similar from police in other states of Germany. So i think the terrible state of the Berlin police does not explain, why things are worse in Berlin, because other police in Germany is equally terrible.
One final notion: While we saw student encampments and later occupations at the Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität escalate, we did not see similar at the Technische Universität. The President of the Technische Universität has been more open to dialogue with students and not thought escalatory measures, when the FU and HU had the police evict peaceful protest camps. (which turned out to be unlawful iirc.)